Quotes about Freedom

Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.

Being free is as difficult and as perpetual — or rather fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good jew or a good Moslem or a good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up in the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. 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. from Caged Bird

Nothing's wrong with going to jail for something you believe in. Remember, jail was made for people. Not horses.

Independence is a heady draft, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does.

Ev'ry Voice and Sing"—words by James Weldon Johnson and music by J. Rosamond Johnson. Copyright by Edward B. Marks Music Corporation. Used by permission.

under my eye, but not my thumb.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Nothing's wrong with going to jail for something you believe in. Remember, jail was made for people. Not horses.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave

God, help me let go of my need to deprive myself of being alive.

Control is an illusion. It doesn't work.