Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Lawrence Hill
Born: 1957 (age 68)
Bio: Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist and memoirist. He is best known for his 2013 Massey Lectures Blood: The Stuff of Life, his 2007 novel The Book of Negroes and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada.
Known for:
- The Book of Negroes (2007)
- The Illegal (2015)
- Any known blood (1997)
- Blood: The Stuff of Life (2013)