Lawrence Hill Quotes

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

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

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.

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.

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.

Redemption is invented by the sinner.

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

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.

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

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

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.

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

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

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