Michelle Alexander Quotes

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

I really like cages.

My cage has many rooms.

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.

When you put a top on something and try to bottle it, that's when it dies.

A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage.

People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

To arrive is to be in prison.

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

You can keep a person locked up too long.

It's difficult to put into words what freedom feels like. You only know what freedom feels like if you know what it feels like to not be free.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.