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Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 11, 1813 - March 7, 1897

Topics

Childhood Happy Born Never Slave

The way I inspire loyalty in my team is for them to see me more casually, to have lunch with members of my team, for them to see me with my family, my fiance, to see the real me.

Family Loyalty Me Team Lunch Way

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

John Millington Synge

Walk Perfection Animal Simplicity

A lot of my friends - I am the only white person in their circle. Being able to hear other perspectives besides the white conservative approach has really given me a perspective that I want to share and challenge people to think about.

Challenge Perspective I Am People Me

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

Time Slow Daydreaming Just My Time

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

Marriage Government Church Separation

We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.

Information Need Handle Who Jumble

There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

Family Mother Strong Grandparents

If you don't have ample liquidity, and it's not durable, in times of stress, as you're looking for liquidity, you're forced to sell assets at declining prices, which then eats into your capital position, so it becomes this very, very negative cycle. There's no question that liquidity is sacrosanct.

Stress Looking Negative You Question

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Mother Death Looking Forward Forward

I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.

Good Humility People World Think

I also was a huge 'Dukes of Hazzard' fan. I used to have T-shirts that said 'Dierks of Hazzard' custom-made.

Said Used Fan T-Shirts Huge Also

I'm obviously aware that most people don't agree with me, that people like to escape into a coherent world that is apart from their own.

People Me World Escape Own Agree

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