“Words, language, communication – these are power…
The power to define yourself, the power to give voice, to tell your own story and not have your story told for you or to you. Words can also mobilize – a whole movement, can be bought together under the banner of a phrase – the words we memorize, and quote, and pass down. How we use words can be forms of resistance; how we create new language and new codes. Spoken wordists, poets, speechifiers put our experiences into context, flip around perspectives, make connections, act as trumpets to blow down walls and light fires to put us into action…” Read more… on www.HOCTOK.com
