Slave Quotes

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

Be not a slave of words.

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.