“The Lord who told me to take care of my people meant me to do it just as long as I live, and so I did what he told me.”

When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.

Twasn’t me, ’twas the Lord! I always told Him, ‘I trust to you. I don’t know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,’ an’ He always did.

Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

Oh, Lord! You’ve been with me in six troubles, don’t desert me in the seventh!

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang – one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.

In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn’t reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.

If you are tired, keep going. If you are scared, keep going. If you are hungry, keep going. If you want to taste freedom, keep going.

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.

You’ll be free or die!

Farewell, ole Maser, don’t think hard of me, I’m going on to Canada, where all the slaves are free.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

It wasn’t me, it was the Lord! I always told Him, ‘I trust to you. I don’t know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,’ and He always did.

I can’t die but once.

All I need is her lap to rest and her smile to gaze.

We are living in a nation which worships wealth rather than caring for the poor. I don’t think that is the nation we should be living in.

Don‘t care what other people think because they don’t think.

Trust in yourself knowing that you are becoming the best version of you

Just take care of yourself everything else will automatically be taken care of.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.

Take care of yourself the most so you can take care of the people you care about more.