Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant. — Marlon James Copy Share Image
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is… — Antonio Carlos Jobim Copy Share Image
The true Caribbean people... we are carnival people, we are vibrant people, not dead people. We like to be heard and we… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
I was always pretty interested in my history. Not just the history of the Caribbean, the history of my people, but all… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
“I ain't know what it is to be a girl Mistress Grandsol. I pass straight from child to woman without even a… — Robert Antoni Copy Share Image
People have travelled through the Caribbean islands for all sorts of reasons and left their imprint in the DNA and the food. — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm from the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean in the Lesser Antilles, the lower part of the archipelago, which is… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of… — Alexander Agassiz Copy Share Image
I never think about the next movie. I always think about the situation I'm in now, but you do think about an… — Alex Pettyfer Copy Share Image
Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably.… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
America has always been the richest and most secure, and sometimes the most dangerous country in the world. In the early years,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Puerto Rico has a stray dog problem. Tens of thousands of homeless canines - hundreds of thousands, by some estimates - live… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
My wife and I always have a winter holiday that I call the "fly and flop". In January and February, you don't… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it… — Vladimir Belousov Copy Share Image
Miami, which has already aired, has this wonderful blend of Caribbean culture and Latin American culture and Southern American culture (talking about… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule,… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
The thing is, Guantánamo is also a naval base, and they're under the delusion - especially the people on the naval side… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first… — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
Our resolution urges all Latin American and Caribbean countries to designate al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as terrorist… — Tom Lantos Copy Share Image
Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean,… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
The Caribbean has had a big impact on me. It's very outdoorsy, people don't really spend a lot of time indoors. There's… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm,… — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“People must know who dem be, must remember what important.” - Tanty to Nikki in Oh Gad!” — Joanne C. Hillhouse Copy Share Image
I have wrestled gators in Florida. I have sailed the ocean with Ted Turner. I have swam the oceans in the Caribbean. — Craig Sager Copy Share Image
Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Caribbean is an immense ocean that just happens to have a few islands in it. The people have an immense respect… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before. — Hilary Beckles Copy Share Image
'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
I don't think you can be from the Caribbean and not know a certain amount about the apocalypse. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I always take a trip someplace warm, and the Caribbean is my favorite place to travel for some sun. — Kelly Gale Copy Share Image
The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Those in Argentina, Mexico and Peru, Colombia and the Caribbean Bear La Mancha and Quixote in their hearts For he is an… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“During World War II, the SS San Pasqual was outfitted with machine guns and light cannons.” — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
