“She protected me! If she’d announced I was a nigger, I could have been a slave!” “They got free niggers. Always did have some free niggers. You could be one of them.” “I don’t want to be a free nigger; I want to be a free man.” “Don’t we all. Look. Be what you want—white or black. Choose. But if you choose black, you got to act black, meaning draw your manhood up—quicklike, and don’t bring me no whiteboy sass.”
