Maya Angelou Quotes About Family

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  If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Funny, Life

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.424, Modern Library

• I sustain myself with the love of family.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Family, Cousin

  Twitter post from May 23, 2013

• The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Family, Powerful

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2013.

• A mother's love liberates.

  Maya Angelou

  Family, Mom, Mother

• My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

  Maya Angelou

  Family, Pride, Affair

  Maya Angelou (2009). “Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas”, p.19, Random House

• Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

  Maya Angelou

  Family, Might, Insult

  Maya Angelou (2010). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, p.11, Vintage

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