If you want to survive, do and say as little as possible.
Tell no one who you really are, and tell no one you can read and write.
Unless you want to be a dead nig ger.
The rest here are nig gers, born and bred slaves. Nig gers ain't got no stomach for a fight.
Survival is not about certain death, it is about keeping your head down.
Days ago I was with my family, in my home.
Now you tell me all is lost. Tell no one who I am? That's the way to survive.
Well, I don't want to survive. I want to live.
For God's sake, are you not sentimental in the least?
My sentimentality extends the length of a coin.
You let yourself be overcome by sorrow. You will drown in it.
I will not fall into despair ! I will keep myself hearty until freedom is opportune !
Only a matter of perspective. From where you stand you may see differently.
That there is no justice, or righteousness in this slavery.
Laws change, universal truths though are constant.
It is a fact, a plain and simple fact that what is true and right is true and right for all. White and black alike.
If justice had been done I never would have been here.
My freedom is everyhing. The fact that I can walk out of here tomorrow brings me great pleasure.
My life doesn't mean much to anyone, but seems yours might mean a lot to a whole lot of people.
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