Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Watch for me and you will see That I’m present in the songs that children sing.” People” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mother had said me, "All right, you've been raised, so don't let anybody else raise you. You know the difference between… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Those are facts, but facts, to a child, are merely words to memorize.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Turning off or tuning out people was my highly developed art. The custom of letting obedient children be seen but not heard… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“We carry accumulation of years in our bodies and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are still… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
"Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Hope is born again in the faces of children. It rides on the shoulders of our aged as they walk into their… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
