Day: May 9, 2016

Ursula K. Le Guin on Power, Oppression, Freedom, and How Imaginative Storytelling Expands Our Scope of the Possible

Read Maria Popova’s piece at Brainpickings.com.

Le Guin refers to the words of onetime slave and poet Phillis Wheatley: “In every human Breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.”

Cover of Ursula K. Le Guin's book The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Cover of Ursula K. Le Guin’s book The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

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