“The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. ...” — Jupiter Hammon Quote

“The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.”

“If you see most people neglect the Bible, and many that can read never look into it, let it not harden you and make you think lightly of it, and that it is a book of no worth.”

“Good servants frequently make good masters.”

“The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.”

“I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who'd dared to locate a sanctioned, forbidden space between white vulnerability and black invincibility.”

“To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967.”