#aw

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

#cabin #children #cold #comes #dawns

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#always #children #claim #gave #had

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

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#born #childhood #had #happy #happy childhood

I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#car #day #dog #down #french

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#art #aware #draw #fully #fun

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#assault #away #bush #civil #civil liberties

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#been #i #politically #really #think

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out. ↗

— LeBron James

#away #being #carried #gang #me

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll. ↗

— Rick James

#crazy #fourth #i #james #july

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being. ↗

— William James

#awareness #being #conscious #known #means