Caged Bird

Famous quotes related to caged bird:

    “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 (b. 1939)

    “I know what the caged bird feels, alas!”
    —Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)

    “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 (1872–1906)

    “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 (b. 1928)