Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!

My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

Is everything right because the law allows it?

What difference is there in the color of the soul?

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.

It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public.

You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

Amazing how a confluence of praise and lust can just make your defensive barriers collapse like Jell-O on a hot stove

It's good I was born in Brooklyn. You learn how to take care of yourself.

The thing I hate about the film business, is having to pitch your idea.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short.

I never like to think of anything from an ending point.

...a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.