Maya Angelou citáty (282 citátů, strana 2) | Citáty slavných osobností

Originál: (en) We are growing up beyond the idiocies of racism and sexism. <br class="br">Zdroj: Maya Angelou obituary, 28. 5. 2014, theguardian.com https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/28/maya-angelou

„Lidé si někdy nezapamatují, co říkáte nebo co děláte, ale vždycky si zapamatují, jak se kvůli vám cítili.“

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„Naučila jsem se, že i když mám trápení, nemusím na to být sama.“

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„Úspěch znamená milovat, kdo jsme, co děláme a jak to děláme.“

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„Když se učíš, uč, když dostáváš, dávej.“

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„Naučila jsem se, že se stále mám co učit.“

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„Nic nebude fungovat, pokud nebudete fungovat vy.“

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„Předsudky jsou břemenem, které mate minulost, ohrožuje budoucnost a znepřístupňuje přítomnost.“

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„Věřím, že každý člověk se narodí s talentem.“

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„Miluji moudrost. A člověk nemůže být skvělý v ničem, co sám nemiluje. Ne být do toho zamilovaný, ale milovat tu věc, obdivovat ji. A zdá se, že když tu věc milujete a nechcete ji jen vlastnit, najde si vás.“

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„Naučil jsem se, že lidé zapomenou, co jste řekli, lidé zapomenou, co jste udělali, ale lidé nikdy nezapomenou, jak se díky vám cítili.“

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„Mezi pravdou a fakty je velký rozdíl. Fakta mohou zastírat pravdu.“

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„Touha dosáhnout hvězd je ambiciózní. Touha dosáhnout srdcí je moudrá.“

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„Pokud nejsem dobrá sama k sobě, jak mohu očekávat, že ke mně bude dobrý někdo jiný?“

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„Když najdeme někoho, kdo je odvážný, zábavný, inteligentní a milující, musíme poděkovat vesmíru.“

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Maya Angelou: Citáty anglicky

“When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”

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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

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“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”

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

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

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“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”

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Varianta: Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

“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.”

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Maya Angelou kniha I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Zdroj: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”

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“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”

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“That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.”

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“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.”

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“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”

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Varianta: Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

“Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.”

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Maya Angelou kniha I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Zdroj: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible…We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

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“Let nothing dim the light that shines from within”

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Varianta: Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

“You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.”

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Quoting her mother's statement after her son's birth, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

“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.”

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Maya Angelou kniha 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.”

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in Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou (2014), p. 68

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

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“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")”

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Maya Angelou kniha Letter to My Daughter

Zdroj: Letter to My Daughter

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”

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“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

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Maya Angelou kniha Letter to My Daughter

Zdroj: Letter to My Daughter

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”

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“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”

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“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”

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“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.”

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“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”

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“You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.”

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Maya Angelou And Still I Rise

"Still I Rise"
And Still I Rise (1978)
Kontext: 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.

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

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“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”

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