Frasi di Maya Angelou
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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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Maya Angelou Frasi e Citazioni

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

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.”

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.”

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

“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”

Maya Angelou libro I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Origine: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”

Maya Angelou libro Letter to My Daughter

Origine: Letter to My Daughter

“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”

Variante: 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 libro I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Variante: It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
Origine: 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 libro All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Origine: 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 libro A Brave and Startling Truth

A Brave and Startling Truth (1995)
Contesto: 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)
Contesto: 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)
Contesto: 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 libro Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), chapter 5.
Contesto: 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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