Maya Angelou Quotes, Education Quotes, Mother Quotes

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

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My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

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Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

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I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.

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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

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Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

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There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

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But still, like air, I'll rise

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You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

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My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.

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Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

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To those who are given much, much is expected.

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You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

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If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

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It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

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I have great respect for the past.

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