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As women, we are always taught never to let a man know of our affections towards him, lest he laugh, run away, or think that we are psycho. But what if that's not true? Have you ever stopped to think that? What if it's like there's a beautiful little bird in our hearts and we're too afraid to let anyone see it in there? What's wrong with letting anyone know that there's a bird in your chest? Maybe there are lots of wrong ones, but maybe there's one that's just for you— the one who won't laugh or run away when he sees that little bird. After all, it’s just a pretty bird! ↗
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Daylight… in my mind, the night faded. It was daytime and the neighborhood was busy. Miss Stephanie Crawford crossed the street to tell the latest to Miss Rachel. Miss Maudie bent over her azaleas. It was summertime, and two children scampered down the sidewalk toward a man approaching in the distance. The man waved, and the children raced each other to him. It was still summertime, and the children came closer. A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with his hands on his hips. Summertime, and his children played in the front yard with their friend, enacting a strange little drama of their own invention. It was fall, and his children fought on the sidewalk in front of Mrs. Dubose’s. The boy helped his sister to her feet, and they made their way home. Fall, and his children trotted to and fro around the corner, the day’s woes and triumphs on their faces. They stopped at an oak tree, delighted, puzzled, apprehensive. Winter, and his children shivered at the front gate, silhouetted against a blazing house. Winter, and a man walked into the street, dropped his glasses, and shot a dog. Summer, and he watched his children’s heart break. Autumn again, and Boo’s children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough. ↗
It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought against my color with no chance of defense. We should all be dead. I thought I should like to see us all dead, one on top of the other. A pyramid of flesh with the whitefolks on the bottom, as the broad base, then the Indians with their silly tomahawks and teepees and wigwams and treaties, the Negroes with their mops and recipes and cotton sacks and spirituals sticking out of their mouths. The Dutch children should all stumble in their wooden shoes and break 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 abomination. All of us. ↗
#i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #maya-angelou #racism #rage #youth
You taste injustice, even if it’s fictional, really taste it,it has a way of doing that. Sometimes, you can never put the shoe on the other foot. We can’t go back in time and know what it was like to be a black person then. Even today, when things are supposed to be so much better, not one of you can understand what it’s like to be black, to live with the knowledge of what happened to your ancestry and still face injustice. But that book makes us taste it and, reading it, we know how bitter that taste is and we know we don’t like it. But that bitter wakes you up, and when you wake up, you open your mind to things in this world, you make yourself think. Then you’ll decide you don’t like the taste of injustice, not for you and not for anyone, and you’ll understand that even though all the battles can’t be won, that doesn’t mean you won’t fight. ↗
The only other consistent thing in Billy’s life was his father. Billy didn’t call him that though. He’d always called him Pop. Billy’s Pop would have laughed at all that career day stuff. Pop didn’t have crazy hair but Billy was pretty sure he was a genius. Pop told him stuff they didn’t let you in on at school, like how there was supposed to be future stuff already, like moving sidewalks and monorails and jetpacks. Pop told him that the government had lied and screwed people out of all that stuff and the only reason we ever went to the moon was to bury Jimmy Hoffa up there. ↗
Era uma vez um pássaro. Adornado com um par de asas perfeitas e plumas reluzentes, coloridas e maravilhosas. Enfim, um animal feito para voar livre e solto no céu, e alegrar quem o observasse. Um dia, uma mulher viu o pássaro e apaixonou-se por ele. Ficou a olhar o seu voo com a boca aberta de espanto, o coração batendo mais rapidamente, os olhos brilhando de emoção. Convidou-o para voar com ela, e os dois viajaram pelo céu em completa harmonia. Ela admirava, venerava, celebrava o pássaro. Mas então pensou: talvez ele queira conhecer algumas montanhas distantes! E a mulher sentiu medo. Medo de nunca mais sentir aquilo com outro pássaro. E sentiu inveja, inveja da capacidade de voar do pássaro. E sentiu-se sozinha. E pensou: “vou montar uma armadilha. Da próxima vez que o pássaro surgir, ele não partirá mais.” O pássaro, que também estava apaixonado, voltou no dia seguinte, caiu na armadilha, e foi preso na gaiola. Todos os dias ela olhava o pássaro. Ali estava o objecto da sua paixão, e ela mostrava-o ás suas amigas, que comentavam: “Mas tu és uma pessoa que tem tudo.” Entretanto, uma estranha transformação começou a processar-se: como tinha o pássaro, e já não precisava de o conquistar, foi perdendo o interesse. O pássaro sem puder voar e exprimir o sentido da sua vida, foi definhando, perdendo o brilho, ficou feio – e a mulher já não lhe prestava atenção, apenas prestava atenção á maneira como o alimentava e como cuidava da sua gaiola. Um belo dia o pássaro morreu. Ela ficou profundamente triste, e passava a vida a pensar nele. Mas não se lembrava da gaiola, recordava apenas o dia em que o vira pela primeira vez, voando contente entre as nuvens. Se ela se observasse a si mesma, descobriria que aquilo que a emocionava tanto no pássaro era a sua liberdade, a energia das asas em movimento, não o seu corpo físico. Sem o pássaro a sua vida também perdeu o sentido, e a morte veio bater á sua porta. “Por que vieste?” perguntou á morte. “Para que possas voar de novo com ele nos céus”, respondeu a morte. “Se o tivesses deixado partir e voltar sempre, amá-lo-ias e admirá-lo-ias ainda mais; porém, agora precisas de mim para puderes encontrá-lo de novo. ↗
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I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. ↗
