We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening… — 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
Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“If you happen to be white in a white country; pretty according to the dictates of fashion; rich in a country where… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I… — 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
