Maya Angelou: Cytaty po angielsku
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
Wariant: Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Maya Angelou książka I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Źródło: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Wariant: Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou książka I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Źródło: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Let nothing dim the light that shines from within”
Wariant: Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Quoting her mother's statement after her son's birth, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
Maya Angelou książka I Shall Not Be Moved
"Many and More"
I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)
“Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”
in Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou (2014), p. 68
Maya Angelou książka Letter to My Daughter
Źródło: Letter to My Daughter
“You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.”
Maya Angelou And Still I Rise
"Still I Rise"
And Still I Rise (1978)
Kontekst: You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
