"There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury."

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Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.294

Harriet Ann Jacobs

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“When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.”
“I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.”

Source : Saint Robert Southwell (1856). “The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell”, p.58
“Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy - in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible.”
“Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?”
“I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?”

Source : "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death". www.imdb.com. 1989.
“I don't want idiots in my audience. So if me coming forward with what my beliefs are is what you need to hear to not be a fan anymore, that's great. That means next time I show up in whatever said city, your dumb ***** won't be there.”
“Kate realized she had a grave problem. She was infatuated. Or mildly insane. Possibly both.”
“The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.”

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