Black Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y…

— Zora Neale Hurston

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

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

— Jack LaLanne

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

— Frederick Douglass

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

— Afeni Shakur

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

— Kirstie Alley

“Your grandma was a slave once upon a time make her feel free”

— Martellis Thurmand

Depression runs on my mother's side.

— Fearne Cotton

Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome…

— Kate Millett

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

— Mike Tyson

I am your child, not your slave.

— Lucila Navarro

You can find happiness in slavery.

— Nine Inch Nails