When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

It's way too premature for any conver­sations.

I was 6-3 and weighed 160 pounds, and I got to guard (Wake Forest's 6-8, 240-pound Len) Chappell.