Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Lawrence Hill

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian novelist Lawrence Hill.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Lawrence Hill is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He is known for his 2007 novel The Book of Negroes, inspired by the Black Loyalists given freedom and resettled in Nova Scotia by the British after the American Revolutionary War, and his 2001 memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. The Book of Negroes was adapted for a TV mini-series produced in 2015. He was selected in 2013 for the Massey Lectures: he drew from his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life, published that year. His ten books include other non-fiction and fictional works, and some have been translated into other languages and published in numerous other countries.

Canadian - Novelist | Born: 1957

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When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

Lawrence Hill

Redemption is invented by the sinner.

Lawrence Hill

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

We are never really beyond it... slavery continues to this day.

Lawrence Hill

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

Lawrence Hill

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

Lawrence Hill

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

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

Lawrence Hill

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

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

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

Lawrence Hill

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

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

Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Lawrence Hill

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