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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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"Words mean more than what is fix down on paper. It takes the human vocalization to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for nonetheless,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"Instead, pursue the things you dear doing, and then practice them then well that people can't accept their optics off y'all."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"To exist left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating dazzler of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Nearly surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"Life is going to give yous merely what y'all put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you tin can wait."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same fourth dimension that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable effect of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Enough pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute backside."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"To be left lone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to feel the excruciating dazzler of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"Without willing information technology, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to beingness aware of beingness aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was enlightened of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to larn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School. "
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, equally are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal educational activity. "
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was every bit honorable equally resistance, especially if one had no choice."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"If growing upwards is painful for the Southern Blackness daughter, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the pharynx. It is an unnecessary insult."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"A story went the rounds nearly a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even later on he fabricated room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the to the lowest degree he could practice was fight for his country the mode her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his torso away from the window to prove an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with nifty nobility, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over in that location."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"It was awful to be Negro and have no command over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit quietly and heed to charges brought against my color with no chance of defense. We should all be dead. I thought I should like to encounter usa all expressionless, one on summit of the other. A pyramid of flesh with the whitefolks on the bottom, as the broad base of operations, then the Indians with their silly tomahawks and teepees and wigwams and treaties, the Negroes with their mops and recipes and cotton wool sacks and spirituals sticking out of their mouths. The Dutch children should all stumble in their wooden shoes and interruption their necks. The French should choke to death on the Louisiana Purchase (1803) while silkworms ate all the Chinese with their stupid pigtails. As a species, we were an anathema. All of us."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"People whose history and future were threatened each day past extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to alive at all. I observe information technology interesting that the meanest life, the poorest beingness, is attributed to God'southward will, just every bit human beings become more flush, as their living standard and style brainstorm to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"He was a simple man who had no inferiority circuitous well-nigh his lack of pedagogy, and fifty-fifty more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"The needs of a society decide its ideals, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table simply by ingenuity and courage is able to have for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in i room only sports a robin'southward-egg-blueish Cadillac is non laughed at only admired, and the domestic who buys twoscore-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to utilise their total mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"Until recently each generation plant it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of beingness immature and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime curt years before). The command to grow up at once was more endurable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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