"The Confessions of Nat Turner" Quotes
The chilling memoir of Nat Turner, an enslaved man who led a bloody rebellion in Virginia.
fiction | 484 pages | Published in 1992
Quotes
Every knock is a boost.
I talk and eat, and laugh and do my work, like others, and yet there seems a hidden and ineffable curse following me.
I prayed, my eyes streamed with tears, but the heavens were as brass, and my prayer returned into my own bosom.
Power is the omnipresent law
How long, O Lord, how long? Oh! I make this entreaty not for myself alone, but for my brethren.
Haste is not the determining virtue of delay. Patience is the determining virtue of haste.
Every aspiration is a fulfilling destiny.
Love is a prayer, an act of faith, a power that has neither boundary nor limit.
Fear binds us, but courage leads us to freedom.
The truth shall set you free, but first it will upset you.
