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Maya Angelou, de son vrai nom Marguerite Johnson, née le 4 avril 1928 à Saint-Louis et décédée le 28 mai 2014 dans sa maison de Winston-Salem , est une poétesse, écrivaine, actrice et militante américaine. Figure importante du mouvement américain pour les droits civiques, elle est devenue une figure emblématique de la vie artistique et politique aux États-Unis où ses livres sont au programme des écoles. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. avril 1928 – 28. mai 2014  •  Autres noms مایا انجیلو, 瑪雅安傑盧
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“Une femme en harmonie avec son esprit
 est comme une rivière qui coule.
Elle va où elle veut sans prétention et arrive à sa destination
 prêt à être elle-même
 et seulement elle-même”

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“Nous nous délectons de la beauté du papillon, mais nous admettons rarement les changements qu’il a subi pour atteindre cette beauté.”

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“La clef du succès, c'est de s’aimer soi-même, d’aimer ce que l'on fait et d’aimer la façon dont on le fait.”

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“Il faut avoir assez de courage pour faire confiance à l'amour une fois de plus et toujours une fois de plus.”

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Maya Angelou: Citations en anglais

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

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

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“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”

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Variante: 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.”

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Maya Angelou livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.”

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Variante: 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.”

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Maya Angelou livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“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.”

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“Let nothing dim the light that shines from within”

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Variante: Nothing can dim the light which 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.”

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Quoting her mother's statement after her son's birth, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

“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.”

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Maya Angelou livre I Shall Not Be Moved

"Many and More"
I Shall Not Be Moved (1990)

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

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in Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou (2014), p. 68

“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.”

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“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.")”

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Maya Angelou livre Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

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

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

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Maya Angelou livre Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.”

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Maya Angelou And Still I Rise

"Still I Rise"
And Still I Rise (1978)
Contexte: You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

“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.”

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