Maya Angelou Quotes About Segregation

• In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

  Maya Angelou

  Way, Segregation, Liberated

• In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Black, Race Relations

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.24, Modern Library

• 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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