Ignorance Quotes by Maya Angelou

“Always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”

— Maya Angelou

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

— Maya Angelou

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

— Maya Angelou

We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

— Maya Angelou

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

— Maya Angelou

“She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”

— Maya Angelou

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

— Maya Angelou

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups,…

— Maya Angelou

We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and…

— Maya Angelou

It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a…

— Maya Angelou

When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I…

— Maya Angelou

If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution.…

— Maya Angelou

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of…

— Maya Angelou

The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

— Maya Angelou

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,…

— Maya Angelou

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and…

— Maya Angelou

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true…

— Maya Angelou

“As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lessons in living.” She said that I must always…

— Maya Angelou

I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to…

— Maya Angelou

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,…

— Maya Angelou

There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it…

— Maya Angelou