Maya Angelou Quotes About Grandmothers

• I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith, God, Christian

  "Maya Angelou discusses her faith, politics, courage ahead of LSU event next week". Interview with Chelsea Brasted, www.nola.com. February 13, 2013.

• I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Phenomenal Woman, Grandmother

• I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don't like the destination and you look behind and you don't want to return to that place, step off the road.

  Maya Angelou

  Grandmother, Years, Looks

  Source: www.azcentral.com

• When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My next thought was that I would die. I looked at my life and thought, "I'm afraid to die." I concluded that whether I was afraid or not, I would die. It was one of the most important crossroads in my life, once I realized that no matter what, I would do this thing, the next step was to think, "If I am going to do the most difficult and frightening thing - dying - is it possible that I could do some difficult and impossible things that are good?"

  Maya Angelou

  Grandmother, Thinking, Impossible Things

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

• When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing to do, I can just think of my grandmother. I can always hear her say, "Now sister, you know what's right. Just do right!"

  Maya Angelou

  Wise, Grandmother, Thinking

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• 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

• Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Grandmother, Clouds

• I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.

  Maya Angelou

  Grandmother, Men, Years

• My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.

  Maya Angelou

  Grandmother, Years, World

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