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. <br class="br">Zdroj: Maya Angelou obituary, 28. 5. 2014, theguardian.com https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/28/maya-angelou
Maya Angelou: Citáty anglicky
“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”
Maya Angelou kniha I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Zdroj: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Zdroj: Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer
“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
Maya Angelou kniha Letter to My Daughter
Zdroj: Letter to My Daughter
“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”
Varianta: I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
As quoted in USA Today (5 March 1988)
Variant:
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
As quoted in Diversity : Leaders Not Labels (2006) by Stedman Graham, p. 224
Maya Angelou kniha I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Varianta: It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
Zdroj: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
As quoted in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989) by Jeffrey M. Elliot
Maya Angelou kniha All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Zdroj: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Maya Angelou kniha A Brave and Startling Truth
A Brave and Startling Truth (1995)
Kontext: p>When we come to it
We, this people, on this wayward, floating body
Created on this earth, of this earth
Have the power to fashion for this earth
A climate where every man and every woman
Can live freely without sanctimonious piety
And without crippling fear When we come to it
We must confess that we are the possible
We are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world
That is when, and only when
We come to it.</p
Maya Angelou kniha A Brave and Startling Truth
A Brave and Startling Truth (1995)
Paris Review Interview (1990)
Kontext: I know when it’s the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it’s the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, No. No, I’m finished. Bye. And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won’t do that.
“Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise”
Maya Angelou And Still I Rise
"Still I Rise"
And Still I Rise (1978)
Kontext: Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
“A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.”
Maya Angelou kniha Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), chapter 5.
Kontext: A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications.... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
