When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues. — Youssou N'Dour Copy Share Image
Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“This man, he could make her his slave, her body his command. -Sahara” — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“Men were a slave to that erotic feeling that made the world disappear.” — Megan D. Martin Copy Share Image
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world. — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The problem is the total opening of borders and allowing the law of the jungle to prevail: The further a company goes… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
“The free man does what he likes in his working time and in his spare time what is required of him. The… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
“Teach him to worry about whether he wants to be free, and he will not free himself. Again, it may be said… — G. K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
African-Americans were dispossessed of the land by being brought over here in slave ships, whereas Indians were on the land and fought… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
It should not be a surprise to find that s/m fantasy is significant in women's sex lives. Women may be born free… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had… — Anthony Copy Share Image
Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story. — Steve Dildarian Copy Share Image
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
