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.

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!

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

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.

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

Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.

I don't want to understand Facebook.

The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.

The richest persons are those who give most in service to others.

Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.

Revile those who flatter you.