"I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away"

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Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#Years Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Six Quotes

“A decent human being is ashamed at being somebody's boss!”
“I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.”
“There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.”
“As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic.”
“We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.”
“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.”
“I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.”

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