Words, like people, hate to be the slaves of ideas
A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.
What I love about Beyonce is she's not a slave to a genre of music.
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.
What am I, your wife?' Boyd asked him, highly amused. Sin seemed to consider that for a moment. 'You would need to exchange bodies with my new boss for that. You can be my slave instead.' Boyd could not help a startled laugh at that. 'I don't know if...
The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound to be low, because there were so many people at the time who had a vested interest in smuggling slaves (and withholding data...
Robert Graysmith: [reading] I like killing people because it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest, because man is the most dangerous animal of all. To kill something is the most thrilling experience. It is even better t...
Edwin Epps: "And that servant which knew his Lord's will... which knew his Lord's will and prepared not himself... prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes..." D'ye hear that? "Stripes." That nigger t...
Hamilton: I'm afraid that Brown and I haven't brought you much luck. But rough waters bring smooth sailing. Eventually they do. Solomon Northup: So... so sorry... Hamilton: Shhh. We won't hear it. We won't. Brown: Let him sleep. Hamilton: Hmm. A good...
Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the passions.
She is a slave, with no way home.
I'm my characters' galley slave.
STUFF POETS STILL LIKE: POETRY
Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.
