Maya Angelou citations
Maya Angelou
Date de naissance: 4. avril 1928
Date de décès: 28. mai 2014
Autres noms: 瑪雅安傑盧, مایا انجیلو
Maya Angelou, de son vrai nom Marguerite Johnson, née le 4 avril 1928 à Saint-Louis et décédée le 28 mai 2014 dans sa maison de Winston-Salem , est une poétesse, écrivaine, actrice et militante américaine. Figure importante du mouvement américain pour les droits civiques, elle est devenue une figure emblématique de la vie artistique et politique aux États-Unis où ses livres sont au programme des écoles. Wikipedia
Citations Maya Angelou
„Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.“
— Maya Angelou, livre Letter to My Daughter
Variante: Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
Source: Letter to My Daughter
„At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.“
This is a very close paraphrase of a quotation attributed to Carl Buehner in a book published many years earlier - “They may forget what you said — but they will never forget how you made them feel.” quoted in Richard Evans' Quote Book, 1971, Publisher's Press, ASIN: B000TV5WBW, although it is widely (mis)attributed to Angelou in her book Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 263,
Misattributed
Variante: People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
„What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.“
— Maya Angelou, livre Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
„I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you."“
The Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture, 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, Weber State University, May 8, 1997 - Full text online at weber.edu http://departments.weber.edu/chfam/familiesalive/angelouspeech.html3
Contexte: I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
„p>I have need of a friend.There is one and only one
who will give the air
from his failing lungs
for my body's mend.And that one is my love.</p“
— Maya Angelou, livre I Shall Not Be Moved
"Many and More"
I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)
„There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.“
— Maya Angelou, livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Misattributed
Source: This is actually from Zora Neale Hurston, <i>Dust Tracks On the Road,</i> though it is widely attributed to Ms. Angelou's book, <i>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.</i>
„Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.“
— Maya Angelou, livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
