"You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity."

-- Henry Highland Garnet

#Slave Quotes #Posterity Quotes

“I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self.”
“The greatest sin is sinning against love.”
“As history shows, childless women in America eventually provoke hysteria.”
“Once in a while you have to bite the hand that reads you.”
“My hair and I had a really bad argument. She was being sprayed with alcohol and burnt with irons. She was being over processed and yanked and pulled by weave strings and suffocated by glue. She told me if I didn't straighten up and fly right that she was leaving.”
“When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you're doing that purely for money, it's not healthy.”
“The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.”
“More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood. Armour encumbers, restricts the body and soul within it. But it also protects. Blows are blunted. Feelings lose their edge, leaving us to suffer naught but a plague of bruises, and, after a time, bruises fade.”

Source : Steven Erikson (2009). “Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)”, p.160, Random House

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