Why does the caged bird sing?

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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

-Helen Keller

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"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day."

- E. B. White

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"It's not who you are that holds you back. It's who you think you're not."

- Anonymous

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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

- Maya Angelou

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"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."

- Chinua Achebe

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"History, despite it's wrenching pain, cannot be un-lived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

- Maya Angelou

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“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”

- W.E.B. DuBois

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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

- Oscar Wilde

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"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

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"Cows are born with ears; later they grow horns."
- Sudanese Proverb

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Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.

- Hafiz

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There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims

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If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
- Aboriginal activist, Lila Watson

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"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."

- Henry David Thoreau

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Let us throw off everything that hinders
and the sin that so easily entangles
and let us run with perseverance the race marked for us
- God (in Hebrews 12.1)

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"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."

Mahatma Gandhi

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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.”

Frederick Douglass