Frasi di Maya Angelou

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“Ho imparato che non devi affrontare la vita con dei guantoni da baseball in entrambe le mani; devi essere capace di tirare indietro qualche cosa.”

“Ho imparato che non importa cosa accada, o quanto brutto possa sembrare l'oggi, la vita continua, e sarà meglio domani.”

“Still I'll rise.”

“Laddove esiste una concentrazione del potere in poche mani, troppo frequentemente uomini con la mentalità da gangster prendono il controllo. La storia lo ha dimostrato. Piagnucolare non è solo poco elegante, ma può essere pericoloso. Può avvertire un cattivo che una vittima è nei paraggi.”

“Uno non deve necessariamente nascere coraggioso, ma si nasce con un potenziale. Senza coraggio non possiamo praticare con coerenza nessun altra virtù. Non possiamo essere gentili, sinceri, pietosi, generosi od onesti.”

“Ho imparato che indipendentemente dalla relazione che hai coi tuoi genitori, ti mancheranno quando se ne saranno andati dalla tua vita.”

“La vita ama essere presa per il bavero è sentirsi dire, 'Sono con te, amica. Andiamo'.”

“Tra gli altri benefici, donare libera l'anima del donatore.”

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

“Se qualcosa non ti piace, cambiala. Se non puoi cambiarla, cambia il tuo atteggiamento. Non lamentarti.”

“Se uno è fortunato, una fantasia solitaria può trasformare completamente un milione di realtà.”

“Ho imparato che ogni volta che ho dei dolori, non devo esserne uno io per gli altri.”

“Il lavoro è qualcosa che rendiamo più grande e che in cambio ci rende più grandi.”

“L'infelicità che deriva dal movimento femminista è che non consente la necessità dell'amore. Non mi importa di appoggiare una rivoluzione dove l'amore non è contemplato.”

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

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

““Ho imparato che le persone dimenticano quello che dici, le persone dimenticano quello che fai, ma non dimenticheranno mai come le hai fatte sentire.”
Maya Angelou”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Let nothing dim the light that 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.”

“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.”

“Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”

“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.”

“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.")”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”