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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
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To make it a crime for public institutions to serve the undocumented simply isolated people and drove them into poverty, she wrote. From then on, people who came looking for a library card received one, regardless of whether their papers were in order. -- Lawrence Hill
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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
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To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own. -- Lawrence Hill
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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
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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
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Every voter knew that the Family Party had come to power promising to deport Illegals, to manage its borders more efficiently and to ensure that people of traditional European stock weren't overrun in their own country. -- Lawrence Hill
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I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it. -- Lawrence Hill
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Someone knows my name. Seeing you makes me want to live. -- Lawrence Hill
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In South Carolina, I had been an African. In Nova Scotia, I had become known as a Loyalist, or a Negro, or both. And now, finally back in Africa, I was seen as a Nova Scotian, and in some respects thought of myself that way too. -- Lawrence Hill
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Mama is beautiful," I said.
"Mama is strong," he said. "Beauty comes and goes. Strength, you keep forever. -- Lawrence Hill
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I concluded that no place in the world was entirely safe for an African, and that for many of us, survival depended on perpetual migration. -- Lawrence Hill
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She asked why I was so black. I asked why she was so white. She said she was born that way. Same here, I replied. -- Lawrence Hill
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Just want to read more books and be a knowledgeable female. -- Lawrence Hill
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Every time I had seen men rise up, they had not prevailed and innocent people had died. Daddy -- Lawrence Hill
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I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself. -- Lawrence Hill
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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
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Only from the calm, he said, can you see how to protect yourself from trouble. -- Lawrence Hill
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I looked up from the street and again at the wretched captives. I vowed not to let the noises of the city drown out their voices or rob me of my past. It was less painful to forget, but I would look and I would remember. -- Lawrence Hill
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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. -- Lawrence Hill
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When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations. -- Lawrence Hill
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Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all. -- Lawrence Hill
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We are never really beyond it ... slavery continues to this day. -- Lawrence Hill
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For this child of mine, home would be me. I would be home. I would be everything for this child until we went home together. -- Lawrence Hill
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Beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right -- Lawrence Hill
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Redemption is invented by the sinner. -- Lawrence Hill
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Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream. -- Lawrence Hill
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I don't govern my life according to danger -- Lawrence Hill
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If the sky was so perfect, why was the earth all wrong -- Lawrence Hill
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Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I owned that place -- Lawrence Hill