"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!"

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Source : Paul Laurence Dunbar (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.28, Courier Corporation

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#Prayer Quotes #Heart Quotes #Wings Quotes

“There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.”
“For China to continue to enjoy economic prosperity, it needs to foster trusting international relationships, not tensions ... and it is important for China to understand this.”
“All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.”
“I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.”
“I love photo shoots where I can be like a pinup, not myself. Where I can be feminine, glamorous, dark not like in real life. I hate it when you go in and they want you to be 'natural,' to be yourself. I just hate it. I love having fun. When they ask you to smile, I hate it. Of course I smile in my real life, but to do it on cue, that's not spontaneous. I'd rather do something that's like a little movie, like a little story, rather than just me, I feel naked.”
“Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relationship with that Japanese boy in Ni d'Eve, Ni d'Adam - that they reach a degree of reality which is incandescent, that I've really conquered a story, understood it and feel that it is really part of me.”

Source : "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.
“If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'”

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