36 Quotes by Lawrence Hill

I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

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.

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.

That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.

I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

just want to read more books and be a knowledgeable female.

To make it a crime for public institutions to serve the undocumented simply isolated people and drove them into poverty, she wrote. From then on, people who came looking for a library card received one, regardless of whether their papers were in order.