Frases de Maya Angelou página 7

“Solo tú eres suficiente. No tienes nada que demostrarle a nadie.”

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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“Comprendía la perversidad de la vida, la de que en la lucha estriba la alegría.”

“El talento de los niños para resistir se debe a su ignorancia de otras posibilidades.”

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“La esencia se escapa, pero su aura permanece”

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Tu abuela dice que lees mucho, siempre que tienes oportunidad. Eso está bien, pero no es suficiente. Las palabras significan más de lo que dicen en el papel. Necesitan la voz humana para que les infunda los matices del significado más profundo.”

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“¡Pide lo que quieras y prepárate para conseguirlo!”

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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“Mi misión en la vida no es simplemente sobrevivir, sino prosperar; y hacerlo con algo de pasión, algo de compasión, algo de humor y algo de estilo.”

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“If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.”

Maya Angelou: Frases en inglés

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

“The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.”

Maya Angelou libro 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.”

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

“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.”

Maya Angelou libro I know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Fuente: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“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.”

“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?”

Maya Angelou libro Letter to My Daughter

Fuente: Letter to My Daughter

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

Maya Angelou And Still I Rise

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

“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.”

Maya Angelou libro I know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Fuente: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“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.”

Fuente: phenomenal woman

“Determine to live life with flair and laughter.”

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

“If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.”

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”

“We are only as blind as we want to be.”

Maya Angelou libro I know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Fuente: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Life likes to be taken by the lapel and told, "I'm with you kid. Let's go!”

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

“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.”

Maya Angelou libro I know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Fuente: 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.”

Maya Angelou libro I know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Fuente: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for”

Maya Angelou libro Mom & Me & Mom

Fuente: Mom & Me & Mom

“If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”

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

“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.”

Fuente: Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female

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

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

Fuente: 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.”

“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.”

Maya Angelou libro Letter to My Daughter

Fuente: Letter to My Daughter

“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.”

“In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.”

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