Death is better than slavery.

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together

The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe.

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

Only mothers will ever know the true struggle and sacrifice it takes to create life. Authors come in at a close second.

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

DEMONS MUST BE RELIGIOUSDue to exorcism based on each religion's practices

My secret friend, Oh, take me to the river.My secret friend, So we can swim forever.

Im so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.

It is a lie that America is racist

Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived.

I smoke till I got chest pains

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.