Frasi di Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou è stata una poetessa, attrice e ballerina statunitense.

✵ 4. Aprile 1928 – 28. Maggio 2014  •  Altri nomi مایا انجیلو, 瑪雅安傑盧
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Frasi sulla vita di Maya Angelou

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“L'orizzonte si china in avanti, offrendoti spazio per fare un nuovo passo.”

Maya Angelou

Origine: Citato in Julia Butterfly Hill, Ognuno può fare la differenza, traduzione di Isabella Bolech, Corbaccio, Milano, 2002, p. 185. ISBN 88-7972-542-4

“Sono una femminista… Sarebbe stupido non stare dalla mia parte.”

Maya Angelou

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro del femminismo, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 307. ISBN 9788858022900

“Il fatto che una donna negra americana mostri un carattere formidabile è spesso accolto con stupore.”

Maya Angelou

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro del femminismo, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 213. ISBN 9788858022900

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Maya Angelou: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

Maya Angelou

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 libro Letter to My Daughter

Variante: Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
Origine: 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.”

Maya Angelou

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
Variante: 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

&quot;Still I Rise&quot; - Full text online at poets.org http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15623 <br class="br">And Still I Rise (1978)

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

Maya Angelou libro I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Misattributed
Origine: 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."”

Maya Angelou

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 <br class="br">Contesto: I don&#x27;t trust people who don&#x27;t love themselves and tell me &quot;I love you.&quot; … There is an African saying which is: &quot;Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.&quot;

“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.”

Maya Angelou

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&#x27;s never solved one yet. <br class="br">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 libro Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Origine: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

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