"If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls."

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Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.81

Harriet Ann Jacobs

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“Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.”
“Itâ€™s a little weird to have fans see pictures of us when we were little because itâ€™s like, â€˜Whereâ€™d you get that picture?â€™”
“You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?”
“My family are not sporty - they are all doctors or lawyers.”
“It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.”

Source : Mercedes Lackey (2010). “Intrigues: Book Two of the Collegium Chronicles (A Valdemar Novel)”, p.158, Penguin
“Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.”

Source : Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.226, The Overlook Press
“When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.”
“Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.”

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