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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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Maya Angelou citations célèbres

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

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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 livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: 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 livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: 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 livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“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 livre Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Source: 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 livre I Shall Not Be Moved

Source: 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 livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“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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“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 livre Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Source: 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 livre 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 livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: 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 livre Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

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

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

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Maya Angelou livre 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.
Source: Letter to My Daughter

“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 livre Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

“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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Maya Angelou livre Mom & Me & Mom

Source: Mom & Me & Mom

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