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Maya Angelou Quotes about Children - Page 2

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

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

Children, Ignorance, Kids

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 08, 2011

You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

Children, Castles, Moats

Maya Angelou (2011). “I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems”, p.21, Random House

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

Life, Children, Growing Up

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

Among other things, I'm thinking "I'm a child of God." That's amazing. And "I'm not only a child of God, but God loves me." The hardest part for me is to realize that while God loves me, and I am a child of God, I have to see the bigot and the brute and the rapist, and whether he or she knows it or not, I have to know that that person is a child of God. That is part of the responsibility - and it's hard.

Children, Responsibility, Thinking

Source: www.oprah.com

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.

New York, Children, Home

"Interview: How Libraries Changed Maya Angelou’s Life". Interview with Angela Montefinise, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

All God's children need traveling shoes.

Children, Shoes, Needs

Maya Angelou (2013). “Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie: Poems”, p.53, Random House

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

Gratitude, Children, Simple

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

Strictly speaking, one cannot legislate love, but what one can do is legislate fairness and justice. If legislation does not prohibit our living side by side, sooner or later your child will fall on the pavement and I'll be the one to pick her up. Or one of my children will not be able to get into the house and you'll have to say, "Stop here until your mom comes here." Legislation affords us the chance to see if we might love each other.

Love, Mom, Children

If you want to liberate someone, love them.Not be in love with them - that's dangerous. If you're in love with your children, you're in their lives all the time. Leave them alone! Let them grow and make some mistakes. Tell them, "You can come home. My arms are here - and my mouth is too." When you really love them, you don't want to possess them. You don't say, "I love you and I want you here with me."

Children, Mistake, Love You

I know why the caged bird sings.

Inspirational, Children, Book

Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10

I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

Children, Godly, Laughing

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

Children, Black, Race Relations

Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.24, Modern Library

There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God.

Children, Clean, Child Of God

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 26, 2013

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

Brother, Children, Men

There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

Mom, Children, Distance

Interview with Oprah Winfrey in O, The Oprah Magazine, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it.

Appreciation, Children, School

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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