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

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.

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

the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem.

Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

I don't like to think of my readership as "fans," a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything.

I usually play characters that are a lot different than me. I mean, I'm never in a fight in a movie and if I'm in them, I'm usually losing.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.

The best thing a writer can do is walk. Walking gives you ideas.