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

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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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