"Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight…"

"Sir, I am fully sensible of the greatness of that freedom, which I take with you on the present occasion; a liberty w…"

"How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind,…"

"Now let us look too at Benjamin Banneker. Look at his correspondence with Thomas Jefferson. Here's a man, some end pa…"

"I thank you, sincerely, for your letter of the 19th instant, and for the Almanac it contained. No body wishes more th…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."

"this country might have been a pio neer land once. but. there ain't no mo indians blowing custer's mind with a differ…"