Underground Quotes
A dead slave ain't worth nothin'.
Harriet
Black folk, we know pain. Known it a long time. I got more scars on my body than I can count.
Harriet
Clara: It worked! He asked me to come by the stable again tomorrow. It ain't gon be long 'fore he do whatever I ant him for do.
Ernestine: Good. 'Cause you gon use him to get me off this island.
Smoke: You should really be coming South with us.
Patty: I think I'm gonna stick around here for a bit. It's a really nice house. You two bring momma back.
That's what they make you think, that freedom is a place. But it ain't. We make ourselves free by the choices we make. Rosalee, my first choice as a free man is you. I'll follow you anywhere.
Noah
I'm sick of hiding. I'm sick of secrets. I am a slave stealer so if you're going to brand me then do it!
Elizabeth
This thing we do, hurting each other over and over, we ain't come up with it. We just keep telling the story they wrote for us. you get hit out in them fields and that shame come and hit me. And I let you because I got so much shame of my own for the things I done to survive, that I think I deserve it.
Ernestine
I spent years out in the field looking at the horizon. Here's the thing about it, you can never quite get to it, can you?
Cato
Image is important. A single photo can do more to alter the perception of the race than any vile word shouted in hatred.
Frederick
I ain't never had no family but I'm starting to understand the pull of it.
Noah
Act like you own the world and that's exactly how they gon treat you.
Rosalee
Them embers reminded a nigga like me what happens when you take money out of the pocket of a white man. What I learned on my journey towards freedom is there is nothing in your past you can't forge into a weapon.
Cato
