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... →
Harriet Ann Jacobs
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran... →
Annie Jacobsen
In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old), parenting is the most difficult of all... →
Martin Jacques
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
Mick Jagger
I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep... →
Naveen Jain
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
T. D. Jakes
When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.
Emmanuel Jal
My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did... →
Etta James
My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel... →