Quotes About Slave Narratives

#1. I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge.

Jurnee Smollett

#2. You can propose on our honeymoon
[Miss Piggy to Kermit the Frog]

Miss Piggy

#3. My grief journey is my own. Others may walk it with me, but no one can walk it for me.

Danny L. Deaube

#4. Love doesn't work like that, one or the other. Don't you know that yet?

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

#5. I just want to do the least work in the least time and make the most money.

Pamela Anderson

#6. We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.

Thomas Aquinas

#7. I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part of my bones that short-selling plays the role of real-time financial watchdog. It's one of the few checks and balances in the market.

James Chanos

#8. I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.

Iris Apfel

#9. Sorry I'm late. I had to drag some Californians out of a snowbank.

Cynthia Hand

#10. The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

T. S. Eliot

#11. Your heart, the compassionate part of you, knows that it's impossible to feel better at the expense of someone else.

Richard Carlson

#12. My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-working Jewish boy from Brooklyn. I was bound to go beyond my parents. It was simply the way things were.

Clive Davis

#13. For example, I can doubt that 2 + 2 = 4; however, my doubting does not change the equation. When I test out that formula and find that it is true, then that becomes my reality. How can anything become real until it is tested in the crucible of doubt?

David W. Earle

#14. But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.

Don McLean

#15. We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

John Green

#16. In addition to unfinished business, some ghosts haunt so that they will be remembered.

Donna Lynn Hope