I heard some folks still want to write the freedom speech for me. Baby, if I had to wait on a script, I’d still be in somebody else’s margins. by Sojourner Truth

Say less, Harriet. The only thing worse than being edited is being praised like a decorative pillow.

Fair, but I did warn everyone I was the best-looking abolitionist in the room and nobody challenged me.

Frederick, you wrote three paragraphs and called it a thunderstorm.

That’s because your truth had better stage presence than my whole speech tour.

I wrote a bestseller and both of you still act like I brought a tray of tea to a revolution.

And yet somehow the thunder still found its way to my name.