“And so they have marched many more times since August Morning. They have joined every workers' strike, been part of every vigil and every rally, but no march has ever got them to the place they want to reach. Yet… — Kei Miller Copy Share Image
“To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt - the specific wound around which his person has been formed… — Kei Miller Copy Share
“It don't take no great skill to write down a story. All you have to do is put one word after the next and… — Kei Miller Copy Share
“And so they have marched many more times since August Morning. They have joined every workers' strike, been part of every vigil and every… — Kei Miller Copy Share
“If you hear him beat that drum he will reveal something of himself to you, for what is a drumbeat, after all, other than… — Kei Miller Copy Share
“Whenever he cried, his grandmother would always tell him, You need a backbone, boy. She thought this was the way to raise a man-child… — Kei Miller Copy Share
“The great philosophical question goes: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear, does it make a sound?… — Kei Miller Copy Share
“Agatha Lazarus found out then that there is a moment when a dream is so utterly crushed, that instead of withering the dreamer will… — Kei Miller Copy Share
“Look, this isn't magic realism. This is not another story about superstitious island people and their primitive beliefs. No. You don't get off that… — Kei Miller Copy Share
“And now everybody get the understanding that Gilzene did get. A man cannot rise on his own. Not even a powerful man like Alexander… — Kei Miller Copy Share
“After all, don't care how you want to sit there and deny the knowledge of River Mumma sitting on her rock - don't care… — Kei Miller Copy Share
“Maybe you shake your head, but let me learn a lesson right now: plenty knowledge is in this world. Enough knowledge that you can… — Kei Miller Copy Share
“This place was no freedom, and Massa Day was not done. Massa had only changed his name. He was no longer "Busha" or "Buckra"… — Kei Miller Copy Share
“Some days have more roads than others, and some roads more distance, so that when a woman complains how long the day is, maybe… — Kei Miller Copy Share
“For colour’s sake alone, Purletta Johnson belonged to the Jamaican bourgeoisie. She was fair-skinned, had light grey eyes, and worse, she spoke the kind… — Kei Miller Copy Share
“She knew that for people to be people, they had to believe in something. They had to believe that something was worth believing in.… — Kei Miller Copy Share
