Quotes from Lawrence Hill

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

I concluded that no place in the world was entirely safe for an African, and that for many of us, survival depended on perpetual migration.

Englishmen do love to bury one thing so completely in another that the two can only be separated by force: peanuts in candy, indigo in glass, Africans in irons. Standing

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.