Caribbean Quote by Derek Walcott

“I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.”

Derek Walcott

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Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

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I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very…

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“As human beings we’ve certainly suffered the loss of awe, the loss of sacredness, and the loss of the fact that we’re not here— we’re not put on earth— to shape it anyway we want... You want something to happen with poetry, but it doesn’t make anything happen. So then somebody says, “What’s the use of poetry?” Then you say,…

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“I shall unlearn feeling, unlearn my gift. That is greater and harder than what passes there for life.”

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The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.

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The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you…

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Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was…

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My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his…

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My family background really only consists of my mother. She was a widow. My father died quite young; he must have been thirty-one. Then…

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“I am the man my father loved and was.”

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Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables…

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I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

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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.

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My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.

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I have wrestled gators in Florida. I have sailed the ocean with Ted Turner. I have swam the oceans in the Caribbean.

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