The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. – William Blake
But to the slave mother New Years 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. – Harriet Ann Jacobs
I used to take myself very seriously, now its all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when somethings a big deal for us, its only become a big deal in the space between our ears. – Gillian Anderson
