I know why the caged bird sings. ✨ Title of book (1969), taken from th…

Maya Angelou
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I know why the caged bird sings. ✨ Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10
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