#dr

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#face #god #i #i love #i see

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#buddies #children #friends #get #having

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#because #being #bores #drive #else

The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#being #drawn #into #petitioner #problem

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#beer #beers #bought #drink #drinking

I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#being #dreamed #i #i always #maria

I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#i #smoke #stayed #until

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#cotton #drudge #give #give me #grave

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