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