The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.
Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the other.
Death is better than slavery.
There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.
If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.
Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.
Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime. . . but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else.
Love and a red rose can't be hid.