Parenting Quotes by Maya Angelou

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents

— Maya Angelou

My mother raised me, and then freed me,

— Maya Angelou

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

— Maya Angelou

A mother's love liberates.

— Maya Angelou

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

— Maya Angelou

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

— Maya Angelou

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

— Maya Angelou

“My Mothers Gift of Courage To Me Were Both Large and Small.”

— Maya Angelou

“Mother whispered, 'See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing, If you're for the right thing, then you do…

— Maya Angelou

I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you…

— Maya Angelou

I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say.…

— Maya Angelou

“I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.”

— Maya Angelou

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of…

— Maya Angelou

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a…

— 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

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

— Maya Angelou

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would…

— Maya Angelou

There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right…

— Maya Angelou

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St.…

— Maya Angelou

“Our Father, thank you for letting me see this New Day. Thank you that you didn't allow the bed I lay on…

— Maya Angelou

Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who…

— Maya Angelou

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good…

— Maya Angelou

“If I survived at all, it would be a triumph. If I swam, it would be a miracle. As I unlocked my…

— Maya Angelou

There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always…

— Maya Angelou

"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

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

“One morning as I was leaving, the director said I didn't have to leave the set anymore. What happened? Why did they…

— Maya Angelou

“I laughed too, but not at the hateful jokes made on my people.I laughed because, except that she was white, the big…

— Maya Angelou

“You’re itching to be on your own. You don’t want anybody telling you what time you have to be in at night…

— 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

“Then came that terrible Christmas with its awful presents when our father, with the vanity I was to find typical, sent his…

— Maya Angelou

“love. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. and when she was in her final sickness i went out…

— Maya Angelou

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

— Maya Angelou

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

— Maya Angelou

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it…

— 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

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or…

— Maya Angelou

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day,…

— Maya Angelou

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a…

— Maya Angelou

By no amount of agile exercising of a wistful imagination could my mother have been called lenient. Generous she was; indulgent never.…

— Maya Angelou