HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This comes from… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I took another road, past the old sugar works and the water wheel that had not turned for years. I went to… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been… — Bill Cowher Copy Share Image
Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
Had the Holocaust happened in Tahiti or the Congo, as it has; had it happened in South America, as it has; had… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Clearly the West Indies are going to play their normal game, which is what they normally do — Tony Greig Copy Share Image
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
