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Maya Angelou Quotes about Growing Up

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To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

Maya Angelou
Life, Growing Up, Parent
"Reflecting on joys and trials of being a woman", www.today.com. April 17, 2006.

Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.

Maya Angelou
Growing Up, Grows

We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

Maya Angelou
Growing Up, Years, Acting
Source: blues.gr

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

Maya Angelou
Growing Up, Differences, Long
"Maya Angelou: In disaster, humanity shines". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2011.

We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

Maya Angelou
Growing Up, Ignorance, Racism
Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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

Maya Angelou
Children, Growing Up, Real
Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, 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.

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

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

Maya Angelou
Girl, Growing Up, Southern
1969 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, opening section.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

Maya Angelou
Growing Up, People, Damn

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

Maya Angelou
Life, Growing Up, Years
Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

Maya Angelou
Growing Up, Grandmother, Italian
Source: www.azcentral.com

Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.

Maya Angelou
Growing Up, Grandmother, Exotic
Source: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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