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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

“Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.”

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“I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?”

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“I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”

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Maya Angelou livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Ch. 35

“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We cannot be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

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“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”

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Maya Angelou citation: “If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.”

“If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.”

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Maya Angelou livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”

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Maya Angelou livre Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

“Don't let the man bring you down.”

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Maya Angelou livre The Heart of a Woman

Source: The Heart of a Woman

“I’ve got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve,
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to breathe.”

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Source: Life Doesn't Frighten Me

“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”

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“Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.”

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Maya Angelou livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.”

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“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”

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“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.”

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Maya Angelou livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.”

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“History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again.”

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“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”

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Source: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.

“We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we're the same.”

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“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”

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Variante: The human heart... tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.
Source: The Complete Collected Poems

“It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.”

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Maya Angelou livre Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

Source: Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

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