Freedom Quote by Audre Lorde

“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us - the poet - whispers in our…

— Audre Lorde

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our…

— Audre Lorde

“This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.”

— June Jordan

“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the…

— Audre Lorde

“Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and think and…

— Bilal Tanweer

“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things”

— Ilyas Kassam

“The white western patriarchal ordering of things requires that we believe there is an inherent conflict between what we feel and what we think…

— Nancy K. Bereano (introduction to Sister Outsider

“Writing, an expression of freedom, is an unobtrusive reflection of a contemplative soul.”

— Rian Nejar

“Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her…

— Bonnie Greer

“Poetry, to me, is a type of shamanistic chant capable of chasing away the darkness within us.”

— Leila Samarrai

Poetry is a break for freedom.

— David Whyte

“Poetry is the yearning of the soul to break free!”

— Avijeet Das