“Cause he has everything to lose. All I had was that boy - and he took him from me.”— Hugh Glass, imdb.com
“From that day as a cute kid to this moment, he never gave up dreaming. It was that dream that changed culture all over the world.”— Al Sharpton, youtube.com
“I became terrified of him, for him, of the nightmare which was becoming reality for him, the more so as I could recognize similar thoughts and feelings in myself, even though they were hidden, locked up in my own depths.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, “smoked salmon and Bach.””— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“You might look at me and say, Hey, there's a happy kid; a little hyper, a little rambunctious, but happy all the same. And so there I was, humming along, when suddenly Dorothy would pop up out of the blue, snatch me up, and take me along on one of her lost weekends.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I just clung closer to her and knew the boogeyman couldn't get me, not as long as Mama held me in her arms, not as long as I didn't think about the little girl who had been cut up and stuffed in a trunk -- only a block away from our house -- the one crime that freaked me out when I was still very yo…”— Etta James, amazon.com
“"Girl," Willie said to me one time, "you look just like your papa. You're the spitting image of Minnesota Fats."”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I was as curious as the devil. Couldn't have been older than sixteen months when I started wandering out of the house by myself. I was a handful. Had to be kept on a short leash.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I remember Mama poured me milk and tried to show me how to drink from a cup, but I wouldn't wait. I didn't want to be shown anything. I took the cup and spilled the milk all over me.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Cozie and James also noticed my musical nature when I was still an infant. They said I was fixated on jukeboxes. I'd toddle over and point to one particular song -- "Honky Tonk Train Blues" by Meade Lux Lewis, a hot boogie-woogie instrumental. I'd holler until someone put a nickel in the box and pla…”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Sounds weird, but I have memory flashes of being slipped into bureaus, where I'd pick up my little head and peek out to survey the scene. I've always been a peeker, eager to check out the world.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Cozie could be cold-blooded. Even though my name, "Jamesetta," was formed from "James" (her husband) and "Cozetta," she didn't want to adopt me. She thought I'd hurt her business.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“But whose child was I? The question was there when I was born. It's still there. The question haunts me, worries me, troubles my sleep. You wouldn't think it would matter after all this time, but it does. Something deep inside me needs to know.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I had two mothers, two childhoods, lived two different lives in two different cities. Maybe that's why I became two different people.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.”— Etta James, books.google.com.ph
“How incredible...the affection of a mother is for the infant whom she warms in her bosom and nurses and watches over with care, so that she passes sleepless nights, worries continually, and forgets herself!”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“I was really poor growing up. If I hadn’t been born a boy I’d have had nothing to play with.”— Anihillism, reddit.com