Culture

Maya Angelou on liberation through language, beauty, and the refusal to be silenced.

Liberation as a process - from street criminal to religious conversion to independent Black nationalist thought. Freedom as becoming.

George Orwell's argument that liberation begins inside the mind that the state cannot reach - and the terror when it can.

W.E.B. Du Bois naming double consciousness - the twoness of always seeing yourself through the eyes of those who consider you a problem. Liberation begins with the language to describe what has been done to you.