Maya Angelou citations

„La clef du succès, c'est de s’aimer soi-même, d’aimer ce que l'on fait et d’aimer la façon dont on le fait.“

—  Maya Angelou

„Il faut avoir assez de courage pour faire confiance à l'amour une fois de plus et toujours une fois de plus.“

—  Maya Angelou

„Nous nous délectons de la beauté du papillon, mais nous admettons rarement les changements qu’il a subi pour atteindre cette beauté.“

—  Maya Angelou

„The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.“

—  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

„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."“

—  Maya Angelou

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."

„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,
Misattributed
Variante: People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.

„A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself“

—  Maya Angelou

„First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.“

—  Maya Angelou

„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)

„To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.“

—  Maya Angelou

„As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.“

—  Maya Angelou

„If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.“

—  Maya Angelou

„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

„You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.“

—  Maya Angelou, And Still I Rise

"Still I Rise" - Full text online at poets.org http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15623
And Still I Rise (1978)

„I am a Woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal Woman,
that's me.“

—  Maya Angelou

„I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.“

—  Maya Angelou