Maya Angelou nejznámější citáty
Maya Angelou: Zamilované citáty
Varianta: Naučila jsem se, že lidi zapomenou, co jsi říkala, lidi zapomenou, co jsi dělala, ale nikdy nezapomenou, jak se s Tebou cítili.
Maya Angelou: Citáty o životě
Maya Angelou citáty a výroky
„Vyrůstáme z hlouposti rasismu a sexismu. -- po zvolení Obamy prezidentem“
Originál: (en) We are growing up beyond the idiocies of racism and sexism.
Zdroj: Maya Angelou obituary, 28. 5. 2014, theguardian.com https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/28/maya-angelou
Maya Angelou: Citáty anglicky
Shared on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MayaAngelou/posts/10150251846629796, July 4, 2011
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
Varianta: Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
Zdroj: Letter to My Daughter

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
Varianta: People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.

"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.”
Misattributed
Zdroj: 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
Kontext: 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
Zdroj: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now