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Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mother Morning Children Day Cold

I think 'Westworld' and 'Hap and Leonard' are two of the greatest things that you can do with this oversized pool of the television medium.

Think You Television Pool Two

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Me Year Alive Know Strange Shy

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Time Day People Every Day Try Need

I first saw 'The Dinner Party' in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which honor 999 women who have made important contributions to Western history, I came upon the names of two sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke.

Women History New York City Dinner

I really like baking, and I really like playing video games. I saw a few geeky baking blogs but I never saw a show on television or on the Internet like that. So I thought, 'Why not be the first to try it out?' And it went really well.

Rosanna Pansino

Video Games Thought Internet Baking

Part of me just wants 'Jane' magazine back, and 'Sassy,' too.

Me Back Sassy Magazine Just Part

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

Michael Showalter

Life Funny Real Real Life Comedians

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

Jonathan Lethem

Good Black And White Politics Black

I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.

Know Sound Stick Going

I don't have any problems getting people to open up.

People Problems Open Up Any Getting

I understand the military. I know the military.

Know Understand Military

You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action.

Christopher Priest

Character Action You Say Want Him

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