#caged

The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash. ↗

— James Chiles

#caged #cash #computer #crime #eliminated

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person. ↗

— Jean Harris

#people #person #poking #rat #rats

What sets one Southern town apart from another, or from a Northern town or hamlet, or city high-rise? The answer must be the experience shared between the unknowing majority (it) and the knowing minority (you). All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #innocence #learning #maya-angelou #change

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #maya-angelou #perspective #racism #courage

There shall come a day when Birds shall be free... :) and humans will see... ↗

— K. Hari Kumar

#cage #caged-bird #free #freedom #freedom-of-thought

Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#appear #because #caged #captured #energy

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

#cage #caged #child #compelled #does

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#god #i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings #maya-angelou #poverty #life

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fear #gender-roles #age

I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#animal #around #caged #come #down