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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: 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

“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

“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.

“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

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

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”

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

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

Maya Angelou kniha All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Zdroj: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

“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.”

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

“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.”

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.

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