“It had a fellar call Five Past Twelve. A test look at him and say, 'Boy, you black like midnight.' Then the test take a second look and say, 'No, you more like Five Past Twelve.” — Samuel Selvon Copy Share Image
“Always, from the first time he went there to see Eros and the lights, that circus have a magnet for him, that circus represent life, that circus is the beginning and the ending of the world. Every time he go… — Samuel Selvon Copy Share Image
“It had a fellar call Five Past Twelve. A test look at him and say, 'Boy, you black like midnight.' Then the test take… — Samuel Selvon Copy Share Image
“It ain't have no place in the world that exactly like a place where a lot of men get together to look for work… — Samuel Selvon Copy Share Image
“Always, from the first time he went there to see Eros and the lights, that circus have a magnet for him, that circus represent… — Samuel Selvon Copy Share Image
“Is one of those summer evenings, when it look like night would never come, a magnificent evening, a powerful evening, rent finish paying, rations… — Samuel Selvon Copy Share Image
“But big headlines in the papers every day, and whatever the newspaper and the radio say in this country, that's the people Bible.” — Samuel Selvon Copy Share Image
“It was a summer night: laughter fell softly: it was the sort of night that if you wasn't making love to a woman you… — Samuel Selvon Copy Share Image
“So, cool as a lord, the old Galahad walking out to the road, with plastic raincoat hanging on the arm, and the eyes not… — Samuel Selvon Copy Share Image
