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The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.


Maya Angelou

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MAYA ANGELOU At least the caged bird still sings.
ANDONI GARCIA I know why the caged bird sings.
MAYA ANGELOU I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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MAYA ANGELOU The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man ...
MAYA ANGELOU It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already tra...
MAYA ANGELOU The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same t...
MAYA ANGELOU Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young ...
MAYA ANGELOU The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor...
GERMAINE GREER Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the word...
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the w...
EMILY DICKINSON I am a caged bird,
rattling the bars of my cage,
with furious flutterings,
break my c...
STEVEN JAMES Maya Angelo...
LENNIE GOODINGS I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore; when he beats h...
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR It is the beautiful bird which gets caged
CHINESE PROVERBS Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the...
EMILY DICKINSON Be not a caged bird because all may be available in there, from diet to defense,but what of freedom?
PRABHA Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the ...
EMILY DICKINSON A bird cannot love freely when caged.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO EARLY BIRD
Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird
And catch the worm for your breakfast ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE A nightingale dies for shame if another bird sings better.
ROBERT BURTON DEPARTURE

The horizon slopes away

The days are longer
Trip

A...
PIERRE REVERDY If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter ...
RAQUEL CEPEDA It is well within the order of things
That man should listen when his mate sings;
But the true...
ANNA WICKHAM I caught a red bird once,
I fell in love with her,
Took the red bird home with me,
I...
QUETZAL As the sweet voice of a bird, Heard by the lander in a lonely isle, Moves him to think what ki...
JOHN TAYLOR "THE WATER POET" I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
CLAUDE MONET Freedom is entering from one confine to another with an instant feeling of joy and happiness, just l...
CHANDAN KUMAR DE A bird sang sweet and strong
In the top of the highest tree,
He said, "I pour out my heart i...
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS Over the boundary of time,
Hope transcends,
Desire sings,
One verse,
One song, DEBASISH MRIDHA Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
VICTOR HUGO Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!"
"You're a bird."
"Now say you're a bird too."
"I...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Everyone calls him Blockhead
No one sings his praises
Or takes him to heart...

...
KENJI MIYAZAWA Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the arti...
ALMA GLUCK "As the bird sings it's not the sounds that you feel, but the echoes of its heart." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
WES CRAVEN The real flight of this hawk is impending.

Still,this bird is yet to be tested for real.<...
ARUNIMA SINHA When a Wanderess has been caged,
or perched with her wings clipped,
She lives like a Sto...
ROMAN PAYNE A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose ...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I hold it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise o...
ALFRED TENNYSON Travel makes me feel like a bird,
Travel gives me a sense of freedom,
Travel makes me come...
ARCHANA CHAURASIA KAPOOR (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all ...
VICTOR HUGO It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest...
LAUREN OLIVER Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is f...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHES The past, the present, the future –
The floodgates of time wait for Her footsteps
Yet S...
DEBATRAYEE BANERJEE When sighs are hypnotized by sorrow
Happy moments you need to borrow
From a little child o...
MUNIA KHAN And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
A...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ...
NEIL GAIMAN Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can not fly.<...
LANGSTON HUGHES Barter

Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
SARA TEASDALE A man must be caged before knowing his own freedom.
MILAN STOJILOVIC Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."

-Plato
JESSICA CLARE Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.

Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bar...
VERA NAZARIAN With thee conversing I forget all time,
All seasons and their change, all please alike.
Sw...
JOHN MILTON A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
MAYA ANGELOU Wings can only fly
as long as the bird flies
Soul blackens when you
put on vestment...
MUNIA KHAN Now from his breast into the eyes the ache
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his de...
HOMER The wind sings of our nostalgia
and the starry sky ignores our dreams.
Each snow flake is...
MARGOT BICKEL When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes...
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
L...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
CHINESE PROVERB A bird does not sing because it has an answer -- it sings because it has a song.
UNKNOWN How can a bird that is born for joy
Sit in a cage and sing?
WILLIAM BLAKE What bird so sings, yet does so wail? O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale-- Jug, jug, jug, jug--t...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) Three birds sit on a wire
One bird poops
Three birds shit on a wire
ERIC MANCINI And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of th...
W.B. YEATS Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
and the hunter home fro...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments wit...
VERA NAZARIAN The Fever Bird

The fever bird sand out last night.
I could not sleep, try as I might...
VIKRAM SETH After several minutes, Ed said, his voice raspy and spent, "You okay, Laur?"
Laurie, his bones ...
HEIDI CULLINAN There are things you can’t reach. But
You can reach out to them, and all day long.

MARY OLIVER Mary was like a caged tiger in the first days of her captivity. Keen, alert, and watchful, she liste...
MARGARET GEORGE A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
G...
MECHTHILD OF MAGDEBURG Poetry looking in the mirror sees art,
and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
ABERJHANI When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
MARY H. WALDRIP We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive whe...
T.S. ELIOT There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try:
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry...
JOHN WEBSTER If you added it up, without her there was nothing--but with her even the simplest of gestures of wal...
JIM HARRISON I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself;
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The rope longed-for her beloved, the ceiling hook.

The suspended body; a harbinger of go...
CHIRAG TULSIANI Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death ...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I will arise and go now,
And go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there,
Of clay ...
W.B. YEATS How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying s...
OTTO FRANK Now you may hear songs of kindness
From every singing bird
And from every dancing heart<...
DEBASISH MRIDHA SEA OF LIFE

This is not the end, my friend.
Just as the ocean sings songs to infinit...
SUZY KASSEM There was a heavy, dark pause of vast significance.
Which Jim broke by flashing his hands and b...
J.R. WARD There is a place where the sidewalk ends,
And before the street begins,
And there the gr...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If I were a flower,
humming bird would be my favourite bee
And If I were blind,
the l...
MUNIA KHAN There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"...
ERIN HANSON Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath...
VICTOR HUGO Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This da...
MICHAEL DRAYTON Up the still, glistening beaches,
Up the creeks we will hie,
Over banks of bright seaweed<...
MATTHEW ARNOLD It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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MAYA ANGELOU I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
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MAYA ANGELOU My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p...
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MAYA ANGELOU Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
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MAYA ANGELOU While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone ...
MAYA ANGELOU The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I d...
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MAYA ANGELOU You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else...
MAYA ANGELOU Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
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MAYA ANGELOU Nothing will work unless you do.
MAYA ANGELOU Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
MAYA ANGELOU You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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MAYA ANGELOU There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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MAYA ANGELOU The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
MAYA ANGELOU When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
MAYA ANGELOU Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
MAYA ANGELOU Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise...
MAYA ANGELOU What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change ...
MAYA ANGELOU We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achie...
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MAYA ANGELOU Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer t...
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MAYA ANGELOU I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
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When great trees fall,
rocks on distant hills shudder,
li...
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MAYA ANGELOU Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
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MAYA ANGELOU Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves the liver of it.
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MAYA ANGELOU I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories
MAYA ANGELOU ...there is a difference between being convinced and being stubborn. I
MAYA ANGELOU We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, ...
MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go o...
MAYA ANGELOU Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over whi...
MAYA ANGELOU Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down,...
MAYA ANGELOU I believe that every person is born with talent.
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MAYA ANGELOU Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
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MAYA ANGELOU A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the be...
MAYA ANGELOU The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind o...
MAYA ANGELOU Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
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MAYA ANGELOU It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don
MAYA ANGELOU My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I al...
MAYA ANGELOU Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes...
MAYA ANGELOU At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistanc...
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MAYA ANGELOU All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. ...
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MAYA ANGELOU Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
MAYA ANGELOU The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
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MAYA ANGELOU If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
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MAYA ANGELOU I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and...
MAYA ANGELOU We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the thr...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain...
MAYA ANGELOU I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them sibling...
MAYA ANGELOU The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more bl...
MAYA ANGELOU Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoe...
MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go ...
MAYA ANGELOU The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amaze...
MAYA ANGELOU If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
MAYA ANGELOU You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead, p...
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be ...
MAYA ANGELOU Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, w...
MAYA ANGELOU I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into ...
MAYA ANGELOU When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
MAYA ANGELOU If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts
MAYA ANGELOU A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe
MAYA ANGELOU There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
MAYA ANGELOU Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
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MAYA ANGELOU I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even ...
MAYA ANGELOU Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that...
MAYA ANGELOU As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men de...
MAYA ANGELOU If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person...
MAYA ANGELOU The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amaze...
MAYA ANGELOU To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball the...
MAYA ANGELOU 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 We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are...
MAYA ANGELOU I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and bel...
MAYA ANGELOU If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
MAYA ANGELOU It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Be...
MAYA ANGELOU The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bib...
MAYA ANGELOU I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to h...
MAYA ANGELOU I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So ...
MAYA ANGELOU Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
MAYA ANGELOU All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more ...
MAYA ANGELOU We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are m...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intell...
MAYA ANGELOU You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, ...
MAYA ANGELOU I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scrip...
MAYA ANGELOU When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
MAYA ANGELOU I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I&#...
MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot -...
MAYA ANGELOU I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself ...
MAYA ANGELOU If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
MAYA ANGELOU It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...
MAYA ANGELOU If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU All great achievements require time.
MAYA ANGELOU Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
MAYA ANGELOU You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I ...
MAYA ANGELOU I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.
MAYA ANGELOU Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. T...
MAYA ANGELOU There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more ...
MAYA ANGELOU I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people ...
MAYA ANGELOU It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
MAYA ANGELOU We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can...
MAYA ANGELOU I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
MAYA ANGELOU I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life lo...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
MAYA ANGELOU I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
MAYA ANGELOU The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'...
MAYA ANGELOU Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and...
MAYA ANGELOU Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...
MAYA ANGELOU One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can...
MAYA ANGELOU If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And y...
MAYA ANGELOU History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaki...
MAYA ANGELOU What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been pai...
MAYA ANGELOU Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.
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