If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it. - Sojourner Truth

Now, what I sing they ain't got it in the right way- not in the way I meant it. I am a kind of poet- what do you call it that makes poetry? I can't read it, but I can make it.

Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.

Look there above the center, where the flag is waving bright; We are going out of slavery, we are bound for freedom's light; We mean to show Jeff Davis how the Africans can fight...