“Our Voices Can Still Be Heard Through the Bars of our Gilded Cages”

The caged bird sings   
with a fearful trill   
of things unknown   
but longed for still   
and his tune is heard   
on the distant hill   
for the caged bird   
sings of freedom.

– Maya Angelou, “Caged Bird” (1983)

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