"I would make a good general, for I am not afraid of anything."

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

"I'd rather die than be a slave."

"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. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I wa…"

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