Lawrence Hill famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Two #People #Humanity
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

#Fighting #Waiting #Impossible
Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.
-- Lawrence Hill

#Devil #Sometimes #Deals With The Devil
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

#Sleep #Writing #Heart
Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.
-- Lawrence Hill

#Dream #Children #Today
beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right
-- Lawrence Hill

#Clever #Men #Looks
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

#Disrespect #Papa #Legs
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

#Beautiful #Hands #Wish
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

#Men #Two #Years
When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.
-- Lawrence Hill

#Imagination #Understanding #Taxes

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