"I feel greatly embarrassed when I attempt to address an audience of white people. I am not used to speak to them, and it makes me tremble when I do so, because I have always looked up to them with fea…"

"I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any record containing it."

"What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?"

"I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning."