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.
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chanteuse et actrice italo-françaiseCitations Maya Angelou
„At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.“
— Maya Angelou
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,
„People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.“
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
„Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.“
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
