I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.