Lawrence Hill Quotes

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.

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Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill

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Born: 1957 (age 69)

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)

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