“They rattled my cage to see if I'd bite. When they released me, they'd see that the answer was yes.”
“People always see me writing and ask me if they can read my writing. The answer is yes, after I publish it and they pay for it.”
“Joseph goes to the Social Service Department. "Can I help you?" the secretary inquires. Joseph answers: "Yes, I am God. I've come to see about a release from the hospital.”
“People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.”
“I am a caged bird,rattling the bars of my cage,with furious flutterings,break my chains!Free my spirit!Let me fly with the wings you have drawn upon my soulwith heaven dipped ink”
“I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.”