1.
To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.
Lawrence Hill
2.
I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.
Lawrence Hill
3.
When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.
Lawrence Hill
4.
We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.
Lawrence Hill
5.
Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.
Lawrence Hill
6.
I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest.
Lawrence Hill
7.
But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.
Lawrence Hill
8.
You must learn to respect," Papa said. But I do not respect her," I said. Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect.
Lawrence Hill
9.
Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.
Lawrence Hill
10.
Redemption is invented by the sinner.
Lawrence Hill
11.
Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.
Lawrence Hill
12.
beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right
Lawrence Hill
13.
Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.
Lawrence Hill
