Maya Angelou Quotes About Motherhood

• To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

  Maya Angelou

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.49, Modern Library

• Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Courage, Powerful

• Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Country, People

You May Also Like:

Oprah Winfrey

Langston Hughes

Ruby Dee

Michelle Obama

Cicely Tyson

Toni Morrison

Alice Walker