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Mom & Me & Mom QUOTES

Mom & Me & Mom QUOTES

1 " My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

2 " She said, 'No, you learned that you have power - power and determination. I love you and I am proud of you. With those two things, you can go anywhere and everywhere. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

3 " Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in a white country, poor in a society where wealth is adored and sought after at all costs, female in an environment where only large ships and some engines are described favourably by using the female pronoun-how did I get to be Maya Angelou? "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

4 " Ignorance is a terrible thing. It causes families to lose their center and causes people to lose their control. Ignorance knows no binds. Old people, young people, middle-aged, black, white, can all be ignorant. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

5 " remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

6 " They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. But watch: They will come back to you. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

7 " Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

8 " I want you to write down your blessings. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

9 " This is the role of the mother. And in that visit I really saw clearly, for the first time, why a mother is really important. Not just because she feeds and also loves and also cuddles... but because in an interesting and and maybe an eerie and other worldly way, she stands in the gap. She stands between the unknown and the known. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

10 " I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

11 " I really saw clearly, and for the first time, why a mother is really important. Not just because she feeds and also loves and cuddles and even mollycoddles a child, but because in an interesting and maybe an eerie and unworldly way, she stands in the gap. She stands between the unknown and the known. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

12 " You see, baby, you have to protect yourself. If you don’t protect yourself, you look like a fool asking somebody else to protect you.” I thought about that for a second. She was right. A woman needs to support herself before she asks anyone else to support her. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

13 " Go," she whispered. "Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

14 " One morning as I was leaving, the director said I didn't have to leave the set anymore. What happened? Why did they change their ways of treating me? I came to the realization that it was because I had a mother. My mother spoke highly of me, and to me. But more important, whether they met her or simply heard about her, she was there with me. She had my back, supported me. This is the role of the mother, and in that visit I really saw clearly, and for the first time, why a mother is really important. Not just because she feeds and also loves and cuddles and even mollycoddles a child, but because in an interesting and maybe an eerie and unworldly way, she stands in the gap. She stands between the unknown and the known. In Stockholm, my mother shed her protective love down around me and without knowing why people sensed that I had value. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

15 " Independence is a heady draft, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

16 " I want you to learn that you cannot have anything without working for it. The only way you can be taken advantage of is if you think you can get something for nothing. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

17 " Don't kneel please. Sometimes people put people on pedestals so they can see them more clearly and knock them off more easily "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

18 " Baby, I've been thinking and now I am sure. You are the greatest woman I've ever met. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

19 " ¨I am Lady, and still your mother.¨ "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom

20 " My mother said her friends told her that I had once been seen jumping on the street with my son and playing as if I were a child. She said, “No, she was not playing. She was just being a good mother. "

― Maya Angelou , Mom & Me & Mom