Harriet Ann Jacobs Quotes
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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Baby, baby let me sleep on itLet me sleep on itAnd I'll give you my answer in the morning...
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
