"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."

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Source : Lawrence Hill (2008). “Someone Knows My Name: A Novel”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

Lawrence Hill

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“I think music changes and it evolves.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through listening to Art who was courting me by reading me Little Nemo and Krazy Kat by George Herriman. It was really very effective.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.”
“You could not see a cloud, because No cloud was in the sky: No birds were flying overhead - There were no birds to fly.”
“Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.”
“No matter what amount of negativity you are presented with, 5 minutes from now could be the best moment of your life.”
“Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.”
“I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.”

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