12 Years a Slave quotes

Brown: Circus too constricting a word to describe the talented and merry band with which we travel. It is a spectacle unlike most have ever witnessed. Creatures from the darkest Africa as yet unseen by civilized man. Acrobats from the Orient able to contort themselves in the most confounding manners.
Hamilton: And I myself in aide of Mr. Brown; an internationally renowned practitioner in the art of prestidigitation.

Brown, Solomon Northup

I don't want to survive. I want to live.

Solomon Northup

I apologize for my appearance. But I have had a difficult time these past several years.

Solomon Northup