Frases célebres de Maya Angelou
“Comprendía la perversidad de la vida, la de que en la lucha estriba la alegría.”
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“El talento de los niños para resistir se debe a su ignorancia de otras posibilidades.”
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou: Frases en inglés
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
Variante: Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Variante: Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
“Let nothing dim the light that shines from within”
Variante: Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Quoting her mother's statement after her son's birth, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
“Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”
in Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou (2014), p. 68
“You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.”
"Still I Rise"
And Still I Rise (1978)
Contexto: You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.