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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.”

Maya Angelou

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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

“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”

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Maya Angelou livre Gather Together in My Name

Gather Together in My Name (1974), p. 17.

“We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.”

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“The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.”

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Maya Angelou livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.”

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“In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.”

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Maya Angelou livre Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

“Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?”

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Maya Angelou And Still I Rise

"Still I Rise"
And Still I Rise (1978)

“When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep”

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Maya Angelou livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.”

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Source: phenomenal woman

“The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”

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“You should never make someone a priority who views you as an option.”

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Variante: Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss”

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Maya Angelou livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.”

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Maya Angelou livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.”

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Maya Angelou livre I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”

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Maya Angelou livre Mom & Me & Mom

Source: Mom & Me & Mom

“To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents”

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Source: Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female

“Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence—neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish—it is an imponderably valuable gift.”

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

Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“You dwell in whitened castles
with deep and poisoned moats
and cannot hear the curses
which fill your children's throats.”

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“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”

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Maya Angelou livre Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

“There are some nights when
sleep plays coy,
aloof and disdainful.
And all the wiles
that I employ to win
its service to my side
are useless as wounded pride,
and much more painful.”

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“I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.”

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“You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.”

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Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou

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