To make it a crime for public institutions to serve the undocumented simply isolated people and drove them into poverty, she wrote. From then on, people who came looking for a library card received one, regardless of whether their papers were in order.

To make it a crime for public institutions to serve the undocumented simply isolated people and drove them into poverty, she wrote. From then on, people who came looking for a library card received one, regardless of whether their papers were in order.

Lawrence Hill
Save QuoteView Quote
Save Quote
Similar Quotes by lawrence-hill

To make it a crime for public institutions to serve the undocumented simply isolated people and drove them into poverty, she wrote. From then on, people who came looking for a library card received one, regardless of whether their papers were in order.

Lawrence Hill
Save QuoteView Quote

Mama is beautiful,” I said.“Mama is strong,” he said. “Beauty comes and goes. Strength, you keep forever.

Lawrence Hill
Save QuoteView Quote

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, The Book of Negroes
Save QuoteView Quote

Today you live, child. Tomorrow, you dream.

Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name
Save QuoteView Quote

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

Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name
Save QuoteView 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, Someone Knows My Name
Save QuoteView Quote
Related Topics to lawrence-hill Quotes