I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings quotes about hope
8 quotes on hope from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book. Drawn from the 41 in the full collection.
About Maya Angelou
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or the empty pots made less tragic by your tales?
I was no longer simply a member of the proud graduating class of 1940; I was a proud member of the wonderful, beautiful Negro race.
hoped for the best, was prepared for the worst, so anything in between didn't come as a surprise.
Champion of the world. A Black boy. Some Black mother's son. He was the strongest man in the world.
She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
Can't do is like Don't Care. Neither of them have a home.
nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got.
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