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.

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.

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.

It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.

Dream big and dare to make it happen. You have a heavy power

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

I love you, Ella May and nothing will ever change that. You can push me away -run away – and I will still love you.

As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric and often message-centric.

Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

I tell you, Bono may have a point. South Africa needs a Walmart.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation