If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter captive on a shit-laden perch.
– Raquel Cepeda
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- Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I’m proud to be Latina. – Raquel Welch
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- A truly free man is not free ‘from’ anything, nor free ‘to’ anything, he is just free. Free within himself. – Ilyas Kassam
- The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice. – Oscar Wilde
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- You cannot free someonewho is caged intheir own self. – Anjum Choudhary
- The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. – Michelangelo Buonarroti
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- Sometimes, we are unable to break free because we are held captive by divine assignment because in our problem God has given us a unique purpose. – Shannon L Alder
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- I’d rather be miserable and free than happy and caged. – Dia Reeves
- Sometimes, an apology sets free a part of you that you didn’t even realize was caged…and forgiveness destroys the cage. – Sanjo Jendayi
- Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you’re setting free is yourself. – Darrell Calkins
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- I don’t believe in a country where it’s more acceptable to see two men holding guns than two men holding hands. – Brian Whitaker
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- This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values…. – Laurie Halse Anderson