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  • I know why the caged bird sings. -- Maya Angelou
  • I know what the caged bird feels, alas! -- Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly. -- Thorolf Rafto
  • But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams. -- Maya Angelou
  • Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for. -- Tennessee Williams
  • I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free. -- Arthur Darvill
  • The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. -- Germaine Greer
  • 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
  • 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'. -- Sonya Hartnett
  • 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. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • 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. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • 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. -- Randolph Sinks Foster
  • 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! -- Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. -- Stephen King
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