#the

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

The activity of being a husband, a father - those are roles, too, but underneath them is the spiritual center that connects us all, and that's what's most important. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#being #center #connects #father #husband

The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#anthem #attack #australia #because #been

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#been #blaming #certain #certain point #comes

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#charles #earth #father #first #group

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life. ↗

— Janet Jackson

#because #brothers #else #famous #i

That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play. ↗

— Janet Jackson

#another #award #been #broadway #dream

There's other things I'd like to do. I probably won't tour for a very, very long time. It's something that you feel inside and that's the way I've been looking at everything. ↗

— Janet Jackson

#everything #feel #i #inside #like

Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy. ↗

— Jermaine Jackson

#children #connection #does #happiness #joy