Quotes from Lawrence Hill

Friends are like books. You carry them with you forever, regardless of mundane impediments like geography.

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

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.

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.

I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.

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.

She asked why I was so black. I asked why she was so white. She said she was born that way. Same here, I replied.

Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

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.

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

Someone knows my name. Seeing you makes me want to live.

If the sky was so perfect, why was the earth all wrong

I looked up from the street and again at the wretched captives. I vowed not to let the noises of the city drown out their voices or rob me of my past. It was less painful to forget, but I would look and I would remember.

I stood up to take some air outside. The stars were brilliant that night, and the cicadas were crying in endless song. If the sky was so perfect, why was the earth all wrong?

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.

Only from the calm, he said, can you see how to protect yourself from trouble.

To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

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

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.

I don't govern my life according to danger

Mama is beautiful," I said. "Mama is strong," he said. "Beauty comes and goes. Strength, you keep forever.

I ain't need no proof of puberty at fucking six o'clock on a Wednesday morning.