Slave Girl Quotes

• That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  White, Female, Degradation

  Patricia Hill Collins (2002). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.92, Routledge

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• My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Law, Patriotism, Might

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.130

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• A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

  John Norman

  Girl, Men, Slave

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

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Years, Childhood, Literature

  Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• El niño esclavo no pensaba en el día siguiente; pero llegó esa plaga que, con demasiada seguridad, espera a todo ser humano nacido para ser esclavo.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Children, Waiting, Slavery

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.15

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• I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Jealous, Giving, Mistress

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.41, Prestwick House Inc

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• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Kindness, Attachment, Over You

  Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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• Al igual que con las vacas, las yeguas, las camellas, las esclavas, las vacas búfalo, las cabras y las ovejas, no es el engendrador ni su dueño quien obtiene la descendencia, como ocurre con las esposas de otros.

  Gurú Nanak

  Girl, Wife, Camels

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• The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Girl, Atmosphere, Slave

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.62, Prestwick House Inc

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• Todavía no existe una ética que trate la relación del hombre con la tierra y con los animales y plantas que crecen en ella. La tierra, como las esclavas de Odiseo, sigue siendo propiedad. La relación con la tierra sigue siendo estrictamente económica y conlleva privilegios, pero no obligaciones.

  Aldo Leopold

  Girl, Growing Up, Animal

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.182, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Girl, Years, Ignorant

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.37, Prestwick House Inc

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• Algunos de los miembros de la Alianza del Norte son criminales de guerra. Uno de los comandantes de la Alianza del Norte dirigía una red de esclavas en Kabul en 1994. Recuerda que hubo un periodo en el que todas las mujeres de la calle corrían el riesgo de ser violadas. Fue el periodo de gloria de la Alianza del Norte.

  Robert Fisk

  Girl, War, Guy

  Entrevista con Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. 30 de noviembre de 2001.

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• Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master.

  John Norman

  Girl, Men, Would Be

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• No tiene nada de gracioso decir: 'Sí, cogí un billete de avión en primera clase, me fui a una playa de diseño y me enrollé con una esclava laosiana'. ¿A quién le importa?

  Henry Rollins

  Chica, Playa, Clase

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• XI I sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Girl, Song, Names

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• A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Girl, Wise, Wisdom

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• Leo relatos de esclavos, libros como Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Henry Louis Gates [presidente de The Root] tiene un documental asombroso titulado Many Rivers to Cross (Muchos ríos que cruzar); en realidad, todos sus escritos; es una gran riqueza de conocimientos.

  Jurnee Smollett

  Girl, Book, Writing

  "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

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