The Great Speech

So people have asked me what my quote "Caged birds sings, too" means.  It is posted at the end of every email I send out as a signature.  I have gotten guesses that required no thought that made me want to reply "DUH!" to very literal guesses and right on down long winded, out-of-this-world philosophical thoughts.  Who knew a thought that came to me one day out of the blue could pose such an interested audience?

Well,  I have always dreamed of being someone famous that would have to give a grand speech.  And ever since I was a child, I would sleep and in my dreams give these amazing moving speeches.  My sister told me that some nights I would swing my arms about as if I was making an enlightened speech to a crowd.  She said it was quite entertaining to see me mimic as if I was speaking like Martin Luther King Jr did that historical day in from on the Lincoln Memorial.

And yes, I guess you could say that I hope to be written in history as someone who has spoken a great speech as Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a Dream", Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain", and Abraham Lincoln's "The Gettysburg Address".  How do you go about the pathway to becoming great and being heard of saying the great speech?  Perhaps, you can go about the manipulative way of such fictional characters like The Great Gatsby or The Count of Monte Cristo.  Or be inherited in like the Kennedys.  But the question isn't "What is a great speech?"  It is  "Who is your audience and how do you want to change their perspective?"


A great speech is only as good as the posed question.  Because isn't a speech merely a great answer or point of view with an unreasonably doubted defense of palpable reasons?  Even if the answer is wrong in some way if it is proven to answer the question in some defense to win over the existing argument, isn't it right?


My great line:  "Caged birds sing, too."  (© 2009, Juyoung Kang).  And yes, I said it first.  Don't think about using it without my permission for your great speech or book.  Think about it.  Really think about it.  There are many ways to look at this.  People have given me the argument of linear opposition which is a typical way of thought of most.  Now read between the lines.  It compares to what people say "Don't forget the little people."