Family Quote by Bruce Chatwin

“Compared with White Fang, they were frail and flabby, and clutched life without any strength in their grip. White Fang had come straight from…

— Jack London

“We were happy and powerful. But the Europeans came to our country; it was from them that I learned the accomplishments which you appeared…

— Victor Hugo

“She had been the source of all his wealth; she had peopled his plantation with slaves; she had become a great grandmother in his…

— Frederick Douglass

“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the…

— Upton Sinclair

“Goods and chattel. The words from the leather book came into my head. We were like the gold leaf mirror and the horse saddle.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming period of beauty…

— George Orwell

“They have no true interest in where I have been or what I have seen. They crave the fruits of exile, the bitter juices,…

— Monique Truong

“This old dead hero had one only daughter left of his race; a beauty that, to describe her truly, one need say only, she…

— Aphra Behn

“If any one thing in my experience, more than another, served to deepen my conviction of the infernal character of slavery, and to fill…

— Frederick Douglass

“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by…

— Mark Twain

“What does he know of the half-starved wretches toiling from dawn till dark on the plantations? of mothers shrieking for their children, torn from…

— Harriet Jacobs

“their base ingratitude to my poor old grandmother. She had served my old master faithfully from youth to old age. She had been the…

— Frederick Douglass