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  • Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

    Change   Happiness   Mean  
  • A forest bird never wants a cage.

    Freedom   Bird   Want  
    Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Jens Arup (1998). “Four Major Plays”, p.339, Oxford University Press, USA
  • I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.

    Book   Bird   Rooms  
    Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel”, p.14, editionNEXT.com
  • I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

    Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.94, Modern Library
  • Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness. The bird has wings, and wings were made to cleave the air, and soar in freedom in the sun. The soul is immortal it cannot feed upon husks.

    Air   Wings   Bird  
  • The needs of a society determine its ethics.

    Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.173, Modern Library
  • The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.

    Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.28, Modern Library
  • Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

    Positive   Mean   Voice  
    Twitter post from Nov 02, 2016
  • The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

    Mother   Song   Children  
    Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.115, Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

    Doors   Bird   Islam  
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.382, Simon and Schuster
  • I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

    Bird   Feels   Alas  
    Paul Laurence Dunbar (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Courier Corporation
  • Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

    Tennessee Williams (1953). “Camino Real: A Play”, p.51, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

    1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.29.
  • If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

    1969 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, opening section.
  • Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.

  • Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

  • There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 14, 2013
  • I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!

    Prayer   Heart   Wings  
    Paul Laurence Dunbar (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Courier Corporation
  • Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

    1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.35
  • I know why the caged bird sings.

    Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10
  • I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

    "The Shawshank Redemption". www.imdb.com. 1994.
  • But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.

    Dream   Powerful   Bird  
    Maya Angelou (2013). “Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?”, p.20, Random House
  • 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.

    Bird   Tunes   Hills  
    Maya Angelou (2013). “Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?”, p.20, Random House
  • Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 17, 2015
  • At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

    1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.31.
  • Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.

    Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.55, Modern Library
  • No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.

    Blue   Sky   Bird  
  • Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

    Marriage   Wedding   Bird  
    Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 5, 1595.
  • But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

    Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.102, University of Virginia Press
  • I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.

    Bird   Stealing   Caged  
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