"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."

Control, Freedom, Kindness

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"Through all life changes , God is in control."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Control, Life, Change, God

"A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Control, Truth, Power, Sex, Work

"We cannot act according to the promptings of our flesh."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Control, Flesh, Prompting, Obedience

"Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Control, Calm, Desperation, Silence, Words

"You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Control, Power, Style, Emotions

"It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Control, Self, Soul, Knowledge

"You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Control, Perception, Emotion, Mind

"Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434)."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Control, Truth, Power, Life, Wisdom

"When parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Control, Rules, Abuse, Boundaries

"Joblessness gives you control over the product of your life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress."

Family

"For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood."

Family

"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."

Life

"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."

Woman

"Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word."

Power

"But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import."

Life

"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."

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"Through all life changes , God is in control."

"A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him."

"We cannot act according to the promptings of our flesh."

"Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!"

"You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style."

"It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul."

"You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion."

"Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434)."

"When parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse."

"Joblessness gives you control over the product of your life."

Explore more quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs

"DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress."

"For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood."

"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."

"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."

"Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word."

"But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import."

"Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities."

"Death is better than slavery."

"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."

"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."