Lawrence Hill, The Book Of Negroes Quotes

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

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.

I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.

I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.