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"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."
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"If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year."

"In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation."

"Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North."

"The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition."

"We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore."

"There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families."

"The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it."
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"The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."

"Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end."

"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity."

"I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage."

"The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre."
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