Sojourner Truth Quotes

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.

Sojourner Truth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: 1797 - November 26, 1883

Topics

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The bigger the audience, the better with comedy.

Jimmy Carr

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I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that's just how it's going to be.

Jen Lancaster

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I asked for a piano in the TARDIS, but it hasn't happened. I'd love to see the Doctor rock up and play, but it'd have to be done in an inventive and silly way.

Matt Smith

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When you say 'R&B,' people's minds automatically go in a place. How about I just say, 'Here's a tape; you can check it out on iTunes. You tell me.'

Trevor Jackson

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I didn't make enough money in my sport to retire.

Roger Staubach

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Often when I meet people and say I'm a designer, they say, 'Oh, a fashion designer.' Which is not a bad thing I suppose, a bit groovy.

Ross Lovegrove

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More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.

Mitchell Zuckoff

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An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

Donald Sinden

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So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.

Deborah Wiles

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I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game.

Willie Mays

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Obama's 'reset' with Russia and 'pivot' to Asia never materialized.

Pete Hoekstra

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I wrote a play once called 'Lobby Hero,' which I thought turned out very well, but there's no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.

Kenneth Lonergan

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