"Don't let anybody raise you. You've been..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.
More by Maya Angelou
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”
“When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing to do, I can just think of my grandmother. I can always hear her say, "Now sister, you know what's right. Just do right!"”
“You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.”
More on Independence
“I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it's great.”
“When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.”
“Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?”
More on Self Reliance
“...What we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front of the white man. Put the white man out of our meetings, number one, and then sit down and talk shop with each other. [That's] all you gotta do.”
“He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.”
“Every pot must sit on its own bottom.”