"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."

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Source : Lawrence Hill (2009). “The Book of Negroes”, p.117, Random House

Lawrence Hill

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“There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil."”
“To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.”
“Some women attract desire. Others do not.”
“Well, I won't give up on us, Even if the skies get rough I'm giving you all my love, I'm still looking up”
“I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.”

Source : "I am chaotic and lazy". Interview with Maik Grossekathöfer, "Spiegel", March 15, 2010.
“The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.”

Source : "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male". Book by Alfred Kinsey, 1948.
“Yes, faith is a choice, and it must be sought after and developed. Thus, we are responsible for our own faith. We are also responsible for our lack of faith. The choice is yours.”
“Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.”

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