Frasi di Maya Angelou (267 frasi, pagina 6)

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

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

Maya Angelou

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

Maya Angelou

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

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

Maya Angelou

“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.”

Maya Angelou

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

“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”

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Maya Angelou

“Just like moons and suns,
With certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.”

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“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.”

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Maya Angelou libro I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Origine: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.”

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“At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.”

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Maya Angelou libro I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Origine: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), p. 212. ISBN 978-0-375-50789-2

“She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.”

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Maya Angelou libro I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Origine: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.”

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“A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.”

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Maya Angelou libro Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Origine: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“I'm young as morning
and fresh as dew.
Everybody loves me
and so do you.”

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Maya Angelou libro I Shall Not Be Moved

Origine: I Shall Not Be Moved

“Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,
Into your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.”

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“I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.”

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“If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.”

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Maya Angelou libro I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Origine: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.”

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“Take the blinders from your vision
take the padding from your ears
and confess you've heard me crying
and admit you've seen my tears.”

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“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”

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“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.”

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“I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.”

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“Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.”

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Maya Angelou libro Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Origine: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”

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Maya Angelou libro I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Ch. 17. ISBN 978-0-375-50789-2

“You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.”

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“Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.”

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Maya Angelou libro I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Origine: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”

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“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”

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Maya Angelou libro Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Origine: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) p. 12.

“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”

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“Life loves the liver of it.”

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“Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.”

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Maya Angelou libro Letter to My Daughter

Variante: Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.
Origine: Letter to My Daughter

“Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.”

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“We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.”

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Maya Angelou libro Letter to My Daughter

Origine: Letter to My Daughter

“This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.”

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“Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.”

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