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Maya Angelou Quotes about Children

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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

Inspirational, Children, Book

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 06, 2010

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

Inspirational, God, Children

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 30, 2013

There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?

Mother, Children, Husband

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

Inspirational, Motivational, Children

Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

Children, Responsibility, Tomorrow

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 29, 2010

We need to remember to teach our children that solitude can be a much-to-be-desired condition. Not only is it acceptable to be alone; at times it is positively to be wished for.....In the silence we listen to ourselves. Then we ask questions of ourselves. We describe ourselves to ourselves, and in the quietude we may even hear the voice of God.

Children, Voice, Silence

Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.

Children, Gun, Empowerment

Source: www.foxnews.com

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

Mother, Children, Joy

Human beings are more alike than unalike. Whether in Paris, Texas, or Paris, France, we all want to have good jobs where we are needed and respected and paid just a little more than we deserve. We want healthy children, safe streets, to be loved and have the unmitigated gall to accept love. If we are religious, we want a place to perpetuate God. If not, we want a good lecture every once in a while. And everyone wants someplace to party on Saturday nights.

Religious, Jobs, Children

What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all of you do-whether we know it or not, whether we take responsibility for it or not. I hold nothing back because I want to see that light go off. I like to see the children say, 'I never thought of that before.' And I think, 'I've got them!'

Teacher, Children, Mean

I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.

Children, Eye, Thinking

Source: www.psychologytoday.com

The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.

Children, Mind, World

"America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Art, Children, Inspirational Life

Lift up your eyes upon This day breaking for you. Give birth again To the dream. Women, children, men, Take it into the palms of your hands. Mold it into the shape of your most Private need. Sculpt it into The image of your most public self. Lift up your hearts Each new hour holds new chances For a new beginning.

Dream, Children, New Beginnings

Poem at 1992 Presidential Inaugural Ceremonies, delivered 21 January 1993

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.

Children, Son, Blessing

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, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

Children, Husband, Selfish

"Maya Angelou Opens Women’s Health And Wellness Center, Calls Disparities ‘Embarrassing’" by Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Time, Children, War

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.10, Bantam

I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

Children, Growing Up, Real

Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

Hope is born again in the faces of children.

Children, Faces, Born Again

Twitter post from May 27, 2010

Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults.

Children, Clouds, Rainbow

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.

Thank You, Mother, Children

Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

Children, Our Children, Ifs

Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.49, Bantam

Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.

Children, Sibling, Real

Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.

Inspirational, Children, Child Of God

I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?

Daughter, Sex, Children

"Maya Angelou Called On New York State Senators To Back Gay Marriage In 2009" by Curtis M. Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

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