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"Fear leads to worry. Worry leads to depression. But faith overcomes fear and worry."
"Fear is a perception to dare but not to scare."
"It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone's fear is equal."
"When we overcome the fear of death, we become deathless, endless, and infinite."
"I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,Thy knotted and combined locks to part,And each particular hair to stand on endLike quills upon the fretful porpentine.But this eternal blazon must not beTo ears of flesh and blood.List, list, O list!"
Explore more quotes by Harriet Ann Jacobs
"When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."
"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."
"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
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