America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.
Alphonso Jackson
Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn't have much. I had to hustle to get what... →
Curtis Jackson
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
Jesse Jackson
When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
I'm very interested in music, but I was not born musical. I honestly do think some people have the knack. I can't play an instrument. I'm... →
Georgia May Jagger
I'm much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had... →
Ricky Jay
Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.
Richard Jefferson
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a... →
Tahar Ben Jelloun
I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get... →
Joan Jett