Maya Angelou Zitate
seite 3

Maya Angelou war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin, Professorin und Bürgerrechtlerin. Sie war eine wichtige Persönlichkeit der Bürgerrechtsbewegung der Afroamerikaner in den USA. International bekannt wurde der erste Teil ihrer Autobiographie I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , auf Deutsch erstmals 1980 unter dem Titel Ich weiß, daß der gefangene Vogel singt erschienen. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. April 1928 – 28. Mai 2014   •   Andere Namen مایا انجیلو, 瑪雅安傑盧
Maya Angelou Foto
Maya Angelou: 266   Zitate 91   Gefällt mir

Maya Angelou Berühmte Zitate

„Versuche, ein Regenbogen in den Wolken eines anderen zu sein.“

Quelle: mymonk.de

Maya Angelou Zitate und Sprüche

Maya Angelou zitat: „Wenn Du etwas nicht magst, ändere es. Wenn Du es nicht ändern kannst, ändere Deine Einstellung. Beschwere Dich nicht.“

Maya Angelou: Zitate auf Englisch

“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”

Maya Angelou buch I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Quelle: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”

Maya Angelou buch Letter to My Daughter

Quelle: 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.

“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

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

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”

Maya Angelou buch I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Variante: It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
Quelle: 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

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

Maya Angelou buch All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Quelle: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

“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.”

Maya Angelou buch A Brave and Startling Truth

A Brave and Startling Truth (1995)
Kontext: 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

“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.”

Paris Review Interview (1990)
Kontext: 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)
Kontext: 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 buch Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), chapter 5.
Kontext: 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.

Ähnliche Autoren

Anaïs Nin Foto
Anaïs Nin 34
US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin
Helen Keller Foto
Helen Keller 23
amerikanische Schriftstellerin
Toni Morrison Foto
Toni Morrison 5
US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Literaturnobelpreistr…
Isabel Allende Foto
Isabel Allende 79
chilenische Schriftstellerin
Doris Lessing Foto
Doris Lessing 4
britische Schriftstellerin
Margaret Atwood Foto
Margaret Atwood 20
kanadische Schriftstellerin
Oriana Fallaci Foto
Oriana Fallaci 5
italienische Journalistin, Schriftstellerin und Widerstands…
Virginia Woolf Foto
Virginia Woolf 46
britische Schriftstellerin
Colette Foto
Colette 8
französische Schriftstellerin, Kabarettistin und Journalist…
Herta Müller Foto
Herta Müller 16
rumäniendeutsche Schriftstellerin und Literaturnobelpreistr…