Maya Angelou Quotes About Daughters

• 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'?

  Maya Angelou

  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.

• If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

  Maya Angelou

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

• My mother had said me, "All right, you've been raised, so don't let anybody else raise you. You know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. And remember - you can always come home." And she continued to liberate me until she died. On the night she died, I went to the hospital. I told my mom, "Let me tell you about yourself. You deserved a great daughter, and you got one. And you liberated me to be one. So if it's time for you to go, you may have done everything God brought you here to do."

  Maya Angelou

  Mom, Mother, Daughter

• Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?

  Maya Angelou

  Daughter, Son, Finding Someone

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

• My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.

  Maya Angelou

  Daughter, Son, Gay

  Source: www.pbs.org

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