“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.” WritingHeartLongStoriesNamesWaitingSleepAudienceWrittenAbsenceWho I AmBreathingBeastLionsLungsWritten WordRestfulHeart Beating Book:The Book of Negroes Source: The Book of Negroes
“I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.” FightingWaitingImpossibleBest ThingsThings To Do Book:The Book of Negroes Source: The Book of Negroes
