Caribbean Quote by Derek Walcott Download Open image “If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.” — Derek Walcott ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Caribbean History Language Must Talk
My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I don't know a lot about my Jamaican heritage, so I relish any opportunity to learn about Caribbean culture. — Karla Crome Copy Share Image
The country that I was coming from, the island I was in, hadn't been written about, really. So I thought that I virtually had… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The Caribbean is an immense ocean that just happens to have a few islands in it. The people have an immense respect for it,… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Growing up was very interesting for me. If you were Haitian, people just automatically assumed that English was a second language. So they had… — Karen Civil Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador,… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The Caribbean is not an idyll, not to its natives. They draw their working strength from it organically, like trees, like the sea almond… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate. — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
Nobody can doubt Puerto Rico, sociologically, linguistically, culturally, and historically, is a nation. We have our own rich culture, thousand years of history, unique… — Anibal Acevedo Vila Copy Share Image
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways. — Robert McCrum Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in my home, we didn't speak Arabic; it was a mixed culture. My mother played a dominant role in our educational upbringing, and… — Said Musa Copy Share Image
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
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… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“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—… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I shall unlearn feeling, unlearn my gift. That is greater and harder than what passes there for life.” — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
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… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
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… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I say, ‘Man, you best behave youself this time, cause we ain’t never getting this mattress out from in here.’ … Berry say, ‘Don’t… — Robert Antoni Copy Share Image
“The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.” — Cristina García Copy Share Image
I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very different experience… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me. — Rihanna Copy Share Image
The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face. — Linford Christie Copy Share Image
Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
“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—… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I have a brother who's six years older than me and we only ever watched stuff that he wanted to watch - 'Lord of… — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family. — Jourdan Dunn Copy Share Image
Every time you hear anyone talk about the Caribbean, whether it's Caribbeans themselves or people outside, there's always talk about women's bodies. Talk about… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I have wrestled gators in Florida. I have sailed the ocean with Ted Turner. I have swam the oceans in the Caribbean. — Craig Sager Copy Share Image
In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
