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

"Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them and so well that people tin can't have their optics off you."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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

"To be left lone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague just murderous pressure of adult conformity. Information technology becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a abiding battle with the superior forces of maturity."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"Life is going to requite you lot just what you lot put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you practice, and pray, and then you 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 Blackness lack of ability.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable grapheme is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if non enthusiastic acceptance."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"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 take a proficient mind than a cute behind."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty 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 existence ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of existence aware. And the worst function 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 still 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, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. "
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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

"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. Information technology is an unnecessary insult."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"A story went the rounds well-nigh a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit down beside a Negro noncombatant on the streetcar, even afterward he fabricated room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro also. She added that the to the lowest degree he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his torso away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to wait effectually for my arm, which I left over at that place."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"It was atrocious to exist Negro and accept no control over my life. It was roughshod to exist immature and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought against my color with no risk of defence force. We should all be expressionless. I thought I should similar to run across us all dead, ane on summit of the other. A pyramid of flesh with the whitefolks on the lesser, as the broad base of operations, and so the Indians with their light-headed 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. Every bit a species, nosotros were an abomination. All of u.s.a.."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"People whose history and time to come were threatened each twenty-four hour period by extinction considered that it was only past divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I observe it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest beingness, is attributed to God's volition, but every bit human being beings become more flush, every bit their living standard and mode brainstorm to ascend the cloth scale, God descends the scale of responsibleness at a commensurate speed."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"He was a simple human who had no inferiority complex about his lack of instruction, and even more amazing no superiority circuitous because he had succeeded despite that lack."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"The needs of a gild make up one's mind its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table just by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in 1 room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys twoscore-dollar shoes is not criticized just is appreciated. We know that they have put to apply their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body commonage."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

"Until recently each generation institute it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the aforementioned offense short years before). The command to abound up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth."
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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