Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?"
Niliweza kufanya kazi na kula kama mwanamume – nilipoweza kupata – nakuvumilia viboko pia! Na kwani mimi si mwanamke? Nimezaa watoto kumi na watatu, na nimewaona wote wakiuzwa utumwani, na nilipolia kawa uchungu wa mama, hakuna aliyenisikia isipokuwa Yesu! Na kwani mimi si mwanamke?”