“I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.” — Sojourner Truth

When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'When I found Jesus.'

It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are very ragged.

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.