Caribbean Quote by Derek Walcott

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

— Zora Neale Hurston

The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before.

— Hilary Beckles

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour…

— Tessanne Chin

Like Native Americans and African-Americans, women and LGBTQ people, Puerto Ricans should be seen as part of the same overarching struggle for equality -…

— Ritchie Torres

I don't focus on being a minority or being Puerto Rican.

— Alex Cora

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

My wife is from Jamaica. My ex-wife. My stepchildren - and then there's my son. So, it's a biracial family.

— Larry Harvey

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

“In practice, race was a sliding signifier in Jamaica. The social slippage – the sliding of the signifier – was extensive, constitutive of social…

— Stuart Hall

My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.

— Jaboukie Young-White

I come from a very big family from every economic background. Some of the streets I talk about, I've actually walked on because I…

— Marlon James

My family is Jamaican. We were just the slaves that were dropped off over there. And at the end of the day when you…

— Jodie Turner-Smith