My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

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

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.

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.

When the lyrical content is based on the word of God it becomes covenanted.

Your personal declaration of will is the first step in a seemingly impossible journey.

It got to the point where it became logical: if a woman was fiercely intelligent, outspoken and passionate, I’d look towards her arms for the scars. They were almost always there.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

Keep wondering whether your waking reality is a dream and you will wake up to the real.

Girls are crazy and mean. They don't fight fair.