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

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.

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.

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.

The foolish rush to end their lives.Only the steadfast soul survives.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.

When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

To have more than you've got, become more than you are.

He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!"

At the time I wasn’t really familiar with Caucasians and he got me up out of that ’cause they regular people just like everybody else.