Maya Angelou citáty

Maya Angelou, rodným jménem Marguerite Ann Johnson byla americká spisovatelka, básnířka, scenáristka, filmová producentka a aktivistka. Nejslavnější jsou její autobiografické knihy, mezi nimi zejména ta první popisující nelehké dětství a dospívání černošské dívky v časech, kdy nebyla pro černou menšinu vybojována základní práva: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings z roku 1969. Literární kritika knihu ocenila jako zcela novou formu autobiografické beletrie. Byla spolupracovnící Martina Luthera Kinga i Malcolma X a bojovnicí za práva žen. Byla považována za jednu z mluvčích černošské komunity v USA. V roce 1993 recitovala svou báseň při prezidentské inauguraci Billa Clintona. Navázala tak na tradici Roberta Frosta, který recitoval své verše při inauguraci Johna F. Kennedyho roku 1961.

✵ 4. duben 1928 – 28. květen 2014   •   Další jména مایا انجیلو, 瑪雅安傑盧
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Maya Angelou nejznámější citáty

Maya Angelou: Zamilované citáty

„Nakonec si lidé nebudou pamatovat, co jste řekli nebo udělali, budou si pamatovat, jak se s vámi cítili.“

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

“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 kniha Letter to My Daughter

Varianta: Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
Zdroj: 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
Varianta: 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 kniha I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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

“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 kniha Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Zdroj: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

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