Maya Angelou quotes about race & the color line
57 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Maya Angelou wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Drawn from the 227 in the full collection. Page 3 of 3.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings quotes
I was no longer simply a member of the proud graduating class of 1940; I was a proud member of the wonderful, beautiful Negro race.
During these years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. He was my first white love.
we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians and blues singers).
Champion of the world. A Black boy. Some Black mother's son. He was the strongest man in the world.
Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.
If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going.
Every person I knew had a hellish horror of being “called out of his name.”
From the books
Every book with a quote collection of its own, each line verified against the text.
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings quotes · 41 lines (1969)
- Letter to My Daughter quotes · 7 lines (2008)
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