The real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.
Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.
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.
He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.
I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.
You know, with your money and my brains, I mean, there's no telling how far we'd go.
There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.