Died Quote by Harriet Ann Jacobs

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.

— Afeni Shakur

“it was some time before I knew myself to be a slave.”

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Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.

— Lupita Nyong'o

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

— Mary Renault

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

— Frederick Douglass

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown…

— Wynton Marsalis

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

— Leif Garrett

I've always been a slave to my heart.

— Willie Stargell

Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be.…

— Colson Whitehead

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

— Louise Bourgeois

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

— Diego Luna