Caribbean Literature Quotes & Sayings

Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant. — Marlon James

Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae. — Andy Warhol

As soon as you start to tell yourself in your perception that you can't do something anymore, then your biological system will adjust to prove you right. You will not do what you think you can't do. — Bruce H. Lipton

I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat — Eduardo Galeano

One of the effects of indoctrination, of passing into the anglo-centrism of British West Indian culture, is that you believe absolutely in the hegemony of the King's English and in the proper forms of expression. Or else your writing is not literature; it is folklore, or worse. And folklore can never be art. Read some poetry by West Indian writers
some, not all
and you will see what I mean. The reader has to dissect anglican stanza after anglican stanza for Caribbean truth, and may never find it. The anglican ideal
Milton, Wordsworth, Keats
was held before us with an assurance that we were unable, and would never be able, to achieve such excellence. We crouched outside the cave. — Michelle Cliff

What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy ... and then he went and ministered to them both. This, I think, is the difference between charity and justice. Justice means moving beyond the dichotomy between those who need and those who supply and confronting the frightening and beautiful reality that we desperately need one another. — Rachel Held Evans

I don't really like pants, man. I like tights. I'm not really a pants person. I choose not to wear pants. — Taylor Momsen

In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant. — Will Tudor

Forget about love. You will receive that many times, but none of it is lasting. — Amy Tan

Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail. — Abdul Kalam

Everyone is born a millionaire, it is your God-given right to have an abundance of everything, health, money and love. — Charanjit Singh Mannu

Life is not free from its forms. — Wallace Stevens

Yuh cyah vex when soca playin — Wayne Gerard Trotman

I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks. — Shandy L. Kurth

My heart was burning for home. For a moment I felt like crying out, but at the moment of greater pain my mother's voice came back to me. It was as if she was here and talking, Stay and take an education, boy. Take it in, That's the main thing. — Michael Anthony

This is how things were: heavyhearted, but done in the traditional manner. THE — Lisa See