Lawrence Hill said this quote

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

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

~ Lawrence Hill

I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.

~ Lawrence Hill

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