Mari 29/06/2017
Mom & Me & Mom
Maya Angelou é uma inspiração. Como não seria prático colocar o texto inteiro de resenha haha vou dispor algumas das minhas passagens favoritas da autobiografia dessa mulher empoderada que deixa como legado não só poesia e música e brilhantismo, como também coragem, força e determinação para se tornar a mulher que nós desejamos ser, para nos tornarmos "our own woman".
"Don’t let anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will always have to make adaptations, in love relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don’t let anybody change your mind. And then remember this: You can always come home.”
"On the day we moved from her house, Mother liberated me by letting me know she was on my side. I realized that I had grown close to her and that she had liberated me. She liberated me from a society that would have had me think of myself as the lower of the low. She liberated me to life. And from that time to this time, I have taken life by the lapels and I have said, “I’m with you, kid.”
"The challenging days of my existence might or might not be bright and promising. From that
encounter on, whether my days are stormy or sunny and if my nights are glorious or lonely, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If pessimism insists on occupying my thoughts, I remember there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed"
"“I’m going to become a seaman.” I asked, “Why, Mother?” She had a real estate license, she had been a nurse, and she owned a gambling house and a hotel. “Why do you want to go to sea?” “Because they told me they wouldn’t let any woman in their union. They suggested that the union certainly would not accept a Negro woman. I told them, ‘You want to bet?’ I will put my foot in their door up to my hip until every woman can get in that union, and can get aboard a ship and go to sea.”
"You see, baby, you have to protect yourself. If you don’t protect yourself, you look like a fool asking somebody else to protect you.” I thought about that for a second. She was right. A woman needs to support herself before she asks anyone else to support her."
"I thought of the irony of the woman who had forgotten major portions of her life. She had forgotten that she had been married to one man for over fifty years … but she remembered the art"
"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”
"You are your own woman"
"Go. Show them you spell your name W-O-M-A-N"