Education Quote by Maya Angelou

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

— Maya Angelou

“Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.”

— Liza Mundy

“Pop culture mirrored the segregation.”

— Anonymous

“Segregation has it all wrong. We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who…

— Lauren Oliver

“Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Education is the key for self liberation.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I'm opposed to segregation. It's basically antisocial and gives rise to the worst kind of sexism... When a boy or girl has been forced…

— Emma Darcy

“But black students were left on their own.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

“Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.”

— Brandi L. Bates

“I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.”

— Gerald Durrell

“If, because of my schooling, I had grown culturally separated from my parents, my education finally had given me ways of speaking and caring…

— Richard Rodriguez

“I was turning out to be college educated and unemployable in even the most basic way.”

— Tina Fey