Ex Slave Narratives Quotes & Sayings

A poet is an unpaid laborer of a mine where he digs into the mountain to find rough diamonds. He then polishes them with his imagination and emotion to share with everyone. — Debasish Mridha

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much. — Sarah Silverman

I believe that the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach. It's a little further south. — Bill Engvall

I've always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any time, without any effort. The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice. — Nicole Krauss

Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245 years. In slave narratives there were all types of tales and drama and heroism and pain and love that happened during that time. That's rich material for drama! Everyone complains that there are no new stories left to tell. Not true, there are a whole bunch of them, and they're all American with a capital A. — Quentin Tarantino

Dumb dog. I bought a dog whistle. He won't use it. — Karel Capek

Missouri would have convinced you that we did not exist if it were not for social media. The intensity with which they responded to protestors very early - we were able to document that and share it quickly with people in a way that we never could have without social media. We were able to tell our own stories. The history of blackness is also a history of erasure. Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to tell the story historically. There were a million slaves but you see very few slave narratives. And that is intentional. So what was powerful in the context of Ferguson is that there were many people able to tell their story as the story unfolded. — Anonymous

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

I'm in the kitchen five days a week, no matter what, and one or two of those days I'm on the line. Not because I have to be, but because I want to be. — Marc Forgione

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be ... because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap! — Mary Anne Radmacher

Love is bitter, death is sweet. — Jack Kerouac

I felt as we floundered aimlessly about in the snow that it made little difference to me whether I lived or died. It seemed to me that the terrible journey would have no end. I was awake and aware of all that was transpiring around me, but had lost all feeling and power of speech, and existed like an animated dead man. — Hampton Sides

Just be you ... 'cause that's good enough for me! — Cory Monteith

Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment. — William Feather

From the writer of "Age of Armageddon: The Spirit of Krynn"

Once one feels justified, one is often bereft of conscience. — Ryan Tyler Palmer