
Zitate Maya Angelou

„At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.“
This is a very close paraphrase of a quotation attributed to Carl Buehner in a book published many years earlier - “They may forget what you said — but they will never forget how you made them feel.” quoted in Richard Evans' Quote Book, 1971, Publisher's Press, ASIN: B000TV5WBW, although it is widely (mis)attributed to Angelou in her book Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 263,
Misattributed
Variante: People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
„People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.“
— Maya Angelou, buch I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Quelle: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

„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.“
— Maya Angelou, buch I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Quelle: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
„My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.“
Shared on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MayaAngelou/posts/10150251846629796, July 4, 2011
„I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you."“
The Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture, 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, Weber State University, May 8, 1997 - Full text online at weber.edu http://departments.weber.edu/chfam/familiesalive/angelouspeech.html3
Kontext: I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
„There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.“
— Maya Angelou, buch I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Misattributed
Quelle: This is actually from Zora Neale Hurston, <i>Dust Tracks On the Road,</i> though it is widely attributed to Ms. Angelou's book, <i>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.</i>
„What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.“
— Maya Angelou, buch Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Quelle: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
„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.")“
— Maya Angelou, buch Letter to My Daughter
Quelle: Letter to My Daughter