Effort Quote by Derek Walcott

“Islands of memory begin to rise above the river of his life. At first they are little uncharted islands, rocks just peeping above the…

— Romain Rolland

“If Caribbean writers have one single unifying theme, it is a strong sense of place, and of home. There is also - always, beneath…

— Malcolm Bradbury

... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

We are not isolated islands, we are connected links in a chain. Each kind word, each smiling face, each good action, benefits our neighbor,…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land…

— Eduardo Galeano

A lot of the time, it's a European man talking about a Caribbean experience, observing it from outside. We wanted to show the multiplicity…

— Andi Oliver

“The great writers, Conrad, Maugham and Melville, spent only a few years in the South Seas, but their memory of those waters was indestructible;…

— James A. Michener

When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see…

— Chris Hadfield

The Caribbean calls upon the enslaving governments of Europe and their national institutions, all enriched and empowered by their crimes against humanity, to return…

— Hilary Beckles

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go…

— Aldous Huxley

An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores,…

— Tove Jansson

When you're in [ Bahamas], it feels like a bunch of islands, with keys and things like that. It's an existential archipelago. It's funny,…

— Tavares Strachan