“Mom & Me & Mom” is the seventh volume of Angelou’s autobiography. It was published in 2013 and it was Angelou’s 85th birthday. For the first time, Angelou focuses on her relationship with her mother Vivian. Vivian (Baxter) Johnson was a nurse and card dealer. Angelou didn’t understand her mother. She called her mother “Lady”. And she reveals her complex relationship with Vivian in her seventh volume of the autobiography “Mom & Me & Mom”.
In an interview Dr. Angelou described her mother “This woman was the greatest mother of a young adult,” also told Vivian was more than capable of parenting an older one. In this article, QuotesGeeks listed 45 Maya Angelou Mother Quotes.
45 Maya Angelou Mother Quotes:
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“She was our mother and belonged to us. She was never mentioned to anyone because we simply didn’t have enough of her to share.”
― Maya Angelou
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“Champion of the world. A Black boy. Some Black mother’s son. He was the strongest man in the world.”
― Maya Angelou
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“Mother’s beauty made her powerful and her power made her unflinchingly honest.“
― Maya Angelou
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“If you know that youth is dying on the run and my daughter trades dope stories with your son we’d better see what all our fearing and our jeering and our crying and our lying brought about. Take Time Out.”
― Maya Angelou
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“Hope is born again in the faces of children. It rides on the shoulders of our aged as they walk into their sunsets. Hope spreads around the earth, brightening all things, Even hate, which crouches breeding in dark corridors.”
― Maya Angelou
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“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
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“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.”
― Maya Angelou
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“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
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“Mom, did he mean he would have to kill my cat?” He was clutching the small animal so tightly I thought he himself might put an end to its miserable life. “Yes, if no one wanted it, they’d do away with it.” “But Mom, isn’t that place called a place for the protection of animals?”
― Maya Angelou
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“You’re itching to be on your own. You don’t want anybody telling you what time you have to be in at night or how to raise your baby. You’re going to leave your mother’s big comfortable house and she won’t stop you, because she knows you too well.“
— Maya Angelou
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“I love you, Mom. Maybe now you’ll have a chance to grow up.“
— Maya Angelou
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“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
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“Mother whispered, “See, you don’t have to think about doing the right thing. If you’re for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.”
― Maya Angelou
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“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
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“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.”
― Maya Angelou
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“My Mothers Gift of Courage To Me Were Both Large and Small.”
― Maya Angelou
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“I don’t think she ever knew that a deep-brooding love hung over everything she touched.”
― Maya Angelou
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“Laughter so easily turns to hysteria for imaginative children.”
― Maya Angelou
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“If I have a monument in this world, it is my son.”
― Maya Angelou
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“I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it’s serious business.”
― Maya Angelou
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“In Stockholm, my mother shed her protective love down around me and without knowing why people sensed that I had value.”
― Maya Angelou
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“I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.”
― Maya Angelou
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“I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‘mother wit’ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.”
― Maya Angelou
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“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.”
― Maya Angelou
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“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
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“I am Lady, and still your mother.”
― Maya Angelou
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“I can hear. I can speak. I have a son. I have a mother. I have a brother. I can dance. I can sing. I can cook. I can read. I can write.”
― Maya Angelou
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“On the day we moved from her house, Mother liberated me by letting me know she was on my side. I realized that I had grown close to her and that she had liberated me.”
― Maya Angelou
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“You were a terrible mother of small children, but there has never been anyone greater than you as a mother of a young adult.”
― Maya Angelou
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“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
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“I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.”
― Maya Angelou
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“Don’t do anything that you think is wrong. Just do what you think is right, and then be ready to back it up even with your life.”
― Maya Angelou
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“I missed you but I knew you were in the best place for you. I would have been a terrible mother. I had no patience.”
― Maya Angelou
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“I was busy talking, so you hit my hand, and I slapped you off the porch without thinking. It didn’t mean I didn’t love you; it just meant I wasn’t ready to be a mother. I’m explaining to you, not apologizing. We would have all been sorry had I kept you.”
― Maya Angelou
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“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
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“My mother wrote to me and said, “Airplanes leave here every day for Africa. If you need me, I will come.” Her love and support encouraged me to dare to live my life with pizzazz.”
― Maya Angelou
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“My mother complimented me on my decision and said I would do wonders.”
― Maya Angelou
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“I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself.”
― Maya Angelou
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“My mother raised me, and then freed me”
― Maya Angelou
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“Mother’s life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.”
― Maya Angelou
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“To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.“
― Maya Angelou
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“Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”
― Maya Angelou
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“Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.”
― Maya Angelou
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“A mother’s love liberates.”
― Maya Angelou
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“My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.”
― Maya Angelou
FAQs Related to Maya Angelou Mother Quotes:
#1. What was Maya Angelou’s relationship with her mother?
Ans: In Angelou’s seventh volume of autobiography “Mom & Me & Mom” she reveals her complex relationship with her mother.
#2. Why did Maya Angelou call her mother Lady?
Ans: Angelou didn’t understand Vivian so she decided to call her mother “Lady”.
#3. Who is Maya Angelou’s mother?
Ans: Vivian Baxter Johnson.
#4. What is Maya Angelou’s real name?
Ans: Marguerite Annie Johnson.
#5. What is Maya’s brother’s name in the text “Mom & Me & Mom”?
Ans: Bailey.
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