Maya Angelou citations célèbres
Maya Angelou: Citations en anglais
“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”
Maya Angelou livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Source: Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer
“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
Maya Angelou livre Letter to My Daughter
Source: 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.
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
Maya Angelou livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Variante: It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
Source: 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
Maya Angelou livre All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Source: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Maya Angelou livre A Brave and Startling Truth
A Brave and Startling Truth (1995)
Contexte: 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
Maya Angelou livre A Brave and Startling Truth
A Brave and Startling Truth (1995)
Paris Review Interview (1990)
Contexte: 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)
Contexte: 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 livre Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), chapter 5.
Contexte: 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.
