Caribbean Quotes
85 quotes by 77 authors
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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this…
— John Henrik Clarke
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The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.
— Ryan Phillippe
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Lately we have been getting facts pointing to the "oceanic" nature of the floor of so-called inland seas. Through geological investigations it has been definitely…
— Vladimir Belousov
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It's so bad being homeless in winter. They should go somewhere warm like the Caribbean where they can eat fresh fish all day.
— Lady Victoria Hervey
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[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach in the Caribbean,…
— Russell Means
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What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because…
— Danny Glover
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I would much rather end up a fertiliser under a sunflower which is eventually made into sunflower seed oil so that instead of nibbling me…
— Oliver Reed
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The Caribbean is the region in the Americas worst affected by the epidemic of NCDs. These diseases are responsible for over two- thirds of deaths,…
— Freundel Stuart
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Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history and lore, echo…
— Karin Lowachee
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We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase…
— William J. Clinton
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I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was…
— Wyclef Jean
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All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face.
— Linford Christie
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The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world,
— Michel Chossudovsky
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The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate…
— Eliot Engel
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Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.
— Charles Rangel
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets don't flush. The…
— Jay Leno
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Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will…
— Nicholas Stern
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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
— Derek Walcott
Who Wrote These Caribbean Quotes
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