I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

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.

Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware.