Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.

In New England enslaved people had the right to sue for wrongful enslavement.

Dreams can exist but not come trueAnd if you don't believe me just ask yourselfHow can the universe know what you want, If it never hears it from you

Poems are soft kitten furs. smoothing out the rough edges of my world.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not my wrath did grow.

You monkeys only think you're running things.

I'm comfortable with how I lived my life as the president.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

I think I'm a girly beer drinker - I like the fruity ones. And the radler has lower alcohol.

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to.