Best Caged Birds Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't like righteousness, I don't. To my ears, righteousness sounds like the chatter made by birds in cages when the birds of the skies fly by.”

Freedom Righteousness Righteous Self Righteous Self Righteousness Caged Birds Free Birds

Author:C. JoyBell C.

“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.”

Made Soul Sun Air Bird Prison Wings Bars Immortality Immortal Soar Caged Caged Birds Prison Bars

Author:Randolph Sinks Foster

“The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.”

Children Doe Mother Song Bird Justify Cages Enforcement Compelled Mother Love Caged Caged Birds

Book:The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

Source: The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings

“"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"”

Love Should Littles Made Said Done Enough Poor Break Gone Teaching Fool Bird Forgiving Train Notes Aunt Forgive Me Deluded Caged God Forgives Caged Birds God Forgive Me

Book:David Copperfield

Source: David Copperfield

“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”

Marriage Bird Sexuality Desperate Wedding Homosexuality Desperation Cages Getting Married Caged Birds Two Birds Bird Cage

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.”

Inspirational Education Quality Teaching Strength Combination Tenderness Formal Caged Inspirational Teacher Quality Education Formal Education Unbeatable Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Intelligence And Education

Author:Maya Angelou

“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.”

Stills Heard Bird Hills Tunes Fearful Caged Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Trill

Book:Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?

Source: Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?

“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.”

Ifs Girl Black Growing Up Growing Painful Insult Throat Southern Unnecessary Razors Rust Caged Displacement Black Girl Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Author:Maya Angelou

“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.”

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“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.”

Firsts Doors Bird Islam Frightened Take Time Cages Imprisonment Infidel It Takes Time Caged Caged Birds

Book:Infidel

Source: Infidel

“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!”

Knows Heart Would Be Joy Heaven Prayer Beats Bird Wings Core Bars Bosoms Fling Glee Bruised Carols Caged Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“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.”

Mind Causes Behinds Worry Smart Plenty Cute Swear Digging Caged Pretty Woman Good Mind Swear To God Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Digging Ditches

Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”

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

World Taken Doubt Breaths Continuing Deep Breath Caged Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.”

Bird Redemption Meant To Be Feathers Dangerous Things Caged Fly Away Prison Life Caged Birds

Author:Stephen King

“Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.”

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.”

Ifs Thinking Right Thing Caged Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Author:Maya Angelou

“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.”

Life Inspirational Giving Heart Whole Life Is Waiting Praying African American I've Learned Dedication Black Women Caged Phenomenal Woman Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Author:Maya Angelou

“Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.”

Long Freedom Accepting Bird Flight Memorial Day Caged Caged Birds Birds In Flight

Book:Camino Real: A Play

Source: Camino Real: A Play

“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'.”

Speak Answers Sky Calling Bird Blue Endless Cages Caged Churning Caged Birds

Author:Sonya Hartnett

“Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.”

Freedom Bird Human Rights Caged Caged Birds

Author:Thorolf Rafto

“But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams.”

Dream Powerful Bird Graves Caged Caged Birds

Book:Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?

Source: Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?

“I know why the caged bird sings.”

“I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.”

Ifs Bird Stealing Caged Caged Birds

Author:Arthur Darvill

“I know what the caged bird feels, alas!”

Knows Feels Bird Alas Caged Caged Birds

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

“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.”

Mean Happiness Causes Change Silence Talking Danger Speech Bird Misfortunes Shut Up Avoiding Silence Is Cages Parrots Caged Talkative Caged Birds Bird Flying Bird Cage

Author:Sakya Pandita

“But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.”

Heart Prayer Praying Core Carols Caged Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Book:The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Source: The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.”

Humans Mean Voice Positive Paper Deeper Caged Human Voice Deeper Meaning Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Author:Maya Angelou

“At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.”

Ifs Life Choices Taught Surrender Resistance Fifteen Honorable Resignation Caged Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Author:Maya Angelou

“Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”

Girl Opportunity Beauty Sexuality Virtuous Scarcity Opportunist Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Author:Maya Angelou

“The needs of a society determine its ethics.”

Needs Positive Ethics Determine Caged Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

“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 Universe Speak Felt Rooms Mines Bird Cages Caged Caged Birds

Book:The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel

Source: The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel

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