Black Quote by Mervyn Peake

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

— Tupac Shakur

This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.

— William Shakespeare

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of…

— Anthony Venn-Brown

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

— Simone Weil

There are worse prisons than words.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.

— Glenn Ligon

We are all prisoners of the ideas of the times we live in.

— Svetlana Alexievich

“Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. To this day writing remains my crime. Now, although I am…

— Nawal El Saadawi

Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own…

— Jon Anderson

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

— John Marsden

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

— Virginia Woolf