Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I probably did pack a lifetime's work into the 1980s.

John Lloyd

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I want people to get involved and to connect with veterans.

Max Martini

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Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

Max Frisch

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'The Good Parts' is me telling as much as I can of the deeper sides of myself that I haven't shared before. It's like an onion that gets deeper every time you cut it.

Andy Grammer

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I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons.' Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.

Michael Ian Black

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If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

Tris Speaker

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I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.

Roberto Duran

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I knew I wanted to get married and have a family, but it was important that my husband be a Jew; I didn't want to have to explain what Hanukkah is.

Mili Avital

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For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them... I kind of realized on '50/ 50' why I liked these blending of tones, because I think it's kind of what life is like: funny one minute, sad the next, scary the next.

Jonathan Levine

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There shouldn't be any violence in hip-hop. You're getting free clothes. Basically, it's free money.

DMX

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I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That's stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans are getting tight. Workouts peace me out.

Arjun Rampal

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I'm not one of these anti-TV people.

Alissa Quart

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