Laughter Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

“Her smile, though, no, it was her laugh, a dusky, deep cascading laughter that caught the joy, implied and mocked the sorrow in every…

— Lucia Berlin

“You would really sacrifice your pride over the fate of a handful of slaves?”

— C.S. Pacat

“She laughed that joyous full-blown sound that children eventually grow out of, as if the world bleeds the joy from them.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should…

— Fredrika Bremer

“She would forever belong to them, a willing slave to their love and desire.”

— S.R. Roddy

“Smile at the Fates and you will feel less their Slave.”

— Denise Sevier Fries

“Our sense of humor," said Mother, her eyes pooled with laughing tears. "They can't take that away from us, right?”

— Ruta Sepetys

“no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on,”

— Edwin H Friedman

“But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that didn't sit well on the shoulders of a woman…

— R.A. Salvatore

“No slave had ever keeled over dead at a spinning wheel or been butchered for a tangle. But nobody wanted to speak on the…

— Colson Whitehead

“They were happy, I thought. As a child, laughter is all you need as proof of happiness. As a child you don't know there…

— Faiqa Mansab

“This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a manner as…

— Frederick Douglass