Someone Knows My Name
Lawrence Hill
Top 10 Best Quotes
“To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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”
“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.”
“I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.”
“Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.”
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