Maya Angelou Quotes About Ignorance

• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

  Maya Angelou

  Education, Mother, School

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 07, 2015

• It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Thinking, People

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

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Ignorance, Kids

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 08, 2011

• Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Ignorance, Thinking

• The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Roots, World

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

• We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

  Maya Angelou

  Struggle, Ignorance, Warrior

  Twitter post from Feb 21, 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 know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Ignorance, Years

• Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Ignorance, Years

• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Teacher, Educational

  Twitter post from Oct 07, 2015

• No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, African American, Humanity

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 21, 2010

• We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Being Alone, Thinking

  "Campus Life: Centenary; Love Is Message As Maya Angeloub Addresses 700", www.nytimes.com. March 11, 1990.

• If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Ignorance, People

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.659, Modern Library

• The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Mistake, Ignorance

• When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, People, Forgiving

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

  Maya Angelou

  Clever, Ignorance, Talking

  "Exclusive Interview With Maya Angelou on Her New Book, Mom & Me & Mom". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

• There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.azcentral.com

• It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Littles, Prejudice

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

• For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Reading, Book

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 30, 2010

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