"If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going."

"I never had anything good, no sweet, no sugar; that sugar, sugar, sugar! And I’d go to the barrel and get some."

"I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything."

"I had rather be a freeman than a slave."

"We must go free or die. And freedom's not bought with dust."