Underground Quotes
When I close my eyes at night and try to remember my real mother, it gets harder every time and I'm terrified that one of these nights I'm gonna close my eyes and see nothing. The minute that these men took up the cause, the minute they called themselves abolitionists, they put a target on their back. I lived with one most of my life. there's nothing easy about this secret.
Georgia
Georgia: Is that what you think? that I do this because it's easy?
Elizabeth: I don't know what to think. You won't talk to me.
If I'm going to cut a dog loose, especially where we're going, I'm gonna want a dog who bites. You can still bite, can't you?
Patty
August: I ain't one much for history.
Donahue: Yet, here you are hunting an old bounty.
You gotta find something real in the lie.
Ernestine
Clara: But I ain't like you. They don't like dark skin--
Ernestine: How you think I got here?
Clara: I can't believe you ain't never had bread pudding.
Ernestine: It ain't about what I ain't never had. It's about what the master ain't never had. You ain't like the girls he used to and that's good.
Rosalee: Every time I saw myself holding that baby, Noah's baby, he was right there with me. My momma was right there with me. I need them not just for me, for both of us. I feel so scared. I can't do it alone.
Elizabeth: Rosalee, listen to me. You are not alone but if you kill this baby trying to get the rest of them back, you will be.
Elizabeth: Why didn't you tell us?
Rosalee: What would you have said if I had?
Elizabeth: I would have told you that what you're doing is crazy.
Francis: I'm not going to be in attendance of this one.
Cato: And why is that?
Francis: Because I feel like I'm watching a man carefully tie his own goddamn noose and I haven't been in America long enough to want to watch you hang.
Francis: How long do you think you can keep this going on?
Cato: Money is no concern.
Francis: Then what is?
Cato: Winning.
Francis: I saw you winning with Devi. What are you doing here calling all this attention to yourself? We're not in London anymore. You're poking a bear.
Cato: I'm putting the bear down.
Clara: I want you to teach me. I want you to teach me how to get master to do what I want.
Ernestine: Why?
Clara: What Hicks done to me....I ain't got no power to stop it, and I want some.
