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

When advised by another slave to "do and say as little as possible" in order to survive, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup responds, "Days ago I was with my family, in my home. Now you tell me all is lost. Don't tell no one who I am? That's the way to survive? Well, I don't want to survive. I want to live."

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