#her

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#here #i #inside #might #never

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#darkened #dawn #enough #every #life

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

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#among #beings #call #concealment #convinced

Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.' ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#both #directions #end #go #got

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#fear #girl #licentiousness #reared #slave

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

#died #first #first time #i #learned

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#almost #blessed #both #brilliant #bring

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#big #i #influence #myself #other