Quotes About Freedom

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.

we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, but even though we built them, we can't find the door. Yet maybe if you ask God for help in knowing which direction to face, you'll have a moment of intuition. Maybe you'll see at least one next right step you can take.

I have actually come to believe that a person being herself is beautiful - that contentment and acceptance and freedom are beautiful.

We said that we believed that the truth would set us free, and the truth was that the Sunday-school staff was burned out, that there were almost no people of color, and that if we didn't get more help, we'd have to close down.

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding space,' to quote the late, great Zora Neale Hurston. It

In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

So I'd start writing without reining myself in. It was almost just typing, just making my fingers move. And the writing would be terrible.

And there are also the dogs: let's not forget the dogs, the dogs in their pen who will surely hurtle and snarl their way out if you ever stop writing, because writing is, for some of us, the latch that keeps the door of the pen closed, keeps those crazy ravenous dogs contained.

tucked his hands under his thighs as if they had to be contained, as if they would lash out otherwise, or fly away.

We were saying, This is hard, but not as hard as it was for you here, weighed down by the anchors of so-called reality. So go now, go, unfettered.

Don't store guilt for future use. Afra

for when speech is restricted, all men suffer

Then enter a program that gets me out of this wretched asshole of a midden system.

Drummer, beat, and piper, blow, Harper, strike, and soldier, go. Free the flame and sear the grasses Till the dawning Red Star passes.

To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?

It is hard to recognize, or even to describe, but I think this freedom is the real reason the book continues to be so well loved and so well read after all these years. I am talking about the freedom that comes from choosing to remain open, as my mother did, to life itself, whatever it may bring: joys, sorrows, triumphs, failures, suffering, comfort, and certainly, always, change.

It's as if you've been walking against a great wind all your life, and then the wind is gone, and you can't walk.

Clothes, first. Of course, one needs less in the sun. But one needs less anyway, one finds suddenly. One does not need a closet-full, only a small suitcase-full.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of sheding;how little one can get along with, not how much....To say-is it necessary?-when I am tempted to add one more accumulation to my life, when I am pulled toward one more centrifugal activity. One is free, like the hermit crab, to change one's shell.

am talking about the freedom that comes from choosing to remain open, as my mother did, to life itself, whatever it may bring: joys, sorrows, triumphs, failures, suffering

Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.

The American woman is still relatively free to choose the wider life. How long she will hold this enviable and precarious position no one knows. But her particular situation has a significance far above its apparent economic, national or even sex limitations.

One is free, like the hermit crab, to change one's shell.