"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."

Freedom, Fear, Hope, Longing

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"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."

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"No free man needs a God; but was I free?How fully I felt nature glued to meAnd how my childish palate loved the tasteHalf-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!My picture book was at an early ageThe painted parchment papering our cage:Mauve rings around the moon; blood-orange sun;Twinned Iris; and that rare phenomenonThe iridule - when, beautiful and strange,In a bright sky above a mountain rangeOne opal cloudlet in an oval formReflects the rainbow of a thunderstormWhich in a distant valley has been staged -For we are most artistically caged."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"Do not become a slave to sin."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I think I have a right to live my life the way I like."

Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani Activist

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"When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

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"When the yoke is broken, the burden is removed."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If the holy spirit is in you, you are free, even if you are in a physical jail."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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