“It was never a question of passing. It was a question of hiding. Behind Black and white perceptions of who we were -- who they thought we were. Tropics. Plantations. Calypso. Cricket. We were the people with the musical voices… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
“In America: each year the day before school after summer vacation I sat on my bed touching my notebooks, pencils, ruler-holding the stern and… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
“She picked up the book beside her. Jane Eyre. Used, bought recently in a bookshop in Camden Passage, shabby nineteenth-century binding, pages bearing vague… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
“To cope with hurt and control my fears, I grew a thick skin. Oh, the many names of power - pride, arrogance, control. I… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
“A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives- our skin color, the land or concrete we grew up… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
“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… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
“It was never a question of passing. It was a question of hiding. Behind Black and white perceptions of who we were -- who… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
