Fall in love Quote by Jurnee Smollett-Bell

“While I was fighting, I heard other people speaking in the name of freedom, and the more they defended this unique right, the more…

— Paulo Coelho

“I heard other people speaking in the name of freedom, and the more they defended this unique right, the more enslaved they seemed to…

— Paulo Coelho

“They were empowered and fulfilled. They dated occasionally but were just as happy living the feminist dream of a professional woman not answerable to…

— Annette J Dunlea

Enslaved people worked hard to preserve family ties and maintain kinship networks. They married, even as the law would not recognize their unions, and…

— Jamelle Bouie

In the 1930s, the government paid writers to interview 80- and 90-year-old former slaves, and I read those accounts. I came away realizing -…

— Colson Whitehead

“About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.”

— Christina Stead

“ When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper worn…

— N. K. Jemisin

“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the…

— Upton Sinclair

“All the Directors were happy that they had been able to enjoy a bit of extra-marital sex without breaking their matrimonial vows & seeing…

— Nicholas Chong

When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

Slavery was a web of relationships, and if people knew how thick the whole business was, they would not make fun of people like…

— James McBride

Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have fun and…

— Aldis Hodge