Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.
Source: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written By Herself, 1861.
-- Harriet Ann Jacobs, ( 1813-1897), US diarist, writer; She published the classic women's slave narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Woman, 1861, under the pseudonym Linda Brent.