Maya Angelou cytaty

Maya Angelou, z domu: Marguerite Ann Johnson – afroamerykańska poetka, pisarka i aktorka odznaczona Narodowym Medalem Sztuk oraz Prezydenckim Medalem Wolności. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. Kwiecień 1928 – 28. Maj 2014   •   Natępne imiona مایا انجیلو, 瑪雅安傑盧
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Maya Angelou: Cytaty po angielsku

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

Shared on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MayaAngelou/posts/10150251846629796, July 4, 2011

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”

Maya Angelou książka Letter to My Daughter

Wariant: Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
Źródło: 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
Wariant: People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.

“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)

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

Maya Angelou książka I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Misattributed
Źródło: 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>

“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
Kontekst: 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."

“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”

Nearly identical quote attributed to a 1995 TV show, Touched by an Angel https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0732136/quotes: Tess: No, hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it's never solved one yet.
Misattributed

“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 książka Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Źródło: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

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