"When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave."

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Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.17, Prestwick House Inc

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#Mother Quotes #Years Quotes #Six Year Olds Quotes

“If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth.”
“...music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses...”
“I learned to love dance for its own sake.”
“The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.”
“Creativity is as important as literacy”
“By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.”
“Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.”
“Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.”

Source : "The best stats you've ever seen". TED Talks, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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