Quotes by : Lawrence Hill

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

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

But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is....

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

To make it a crime for public institutions to serve the undocumented simply isolated people and drove....

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

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

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

That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible....

WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG, Papa used to tell me that words fly on wild winds from the mouths of sly people.....