DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress

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.

He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also.

If your glass is half empty, fill it up to be full.

People wrestle sometimes making movies, and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.

I'd rather go to hell than be in purgatory...

Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I'm very picky!