Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes

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.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think Europe is well advised to form a unified economic force to be on par with the U.S. and China.

Joe Kaeser

ThinkEuropeForceChinaEconomic

The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.

Joan Didion

WordsMindPictureShortLongYou

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

John Bradshaw

ChildrenMomentWorldBrandNewZen

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

John Oliver

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When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

Angelina Jolie

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Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

Michael Douglas

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Could I imagine myself as king? Of course I could.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

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Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

William Penn

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I think artists throughout the history of time have always been controversial and have been a voice to speak to public culture in a way that a politician can't because they'll lose their constituency.

Mark Foster

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Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

Mark McKinnon

GreatLegacyCitizenshipPartyRight

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.

Justine Musk

WomenLiveCultureStorySomeone

Some people are just really goofy kind of guitar acts, and they go out and do these colleges and start making a fortune pretty early on. And other people - I know guys who are great comics, who've done the Letterman show many times, who still barely pay their bills.

Greg Giraldo

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