Amount Quote by Junot Diaz

The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves…

— Junot Diaz

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 is an immense ocean that just happens to have a few islands in it. The people have an immense respect for it,…

— Derek Walcott

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.

— Anonymous

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

I don't know a lot about my Jamaican heritage, so I relish any opportunity to learn about Caribbean culture.

— Karla Crome

The true Caribbean people... we are carnival people, we are vibrant people, not dead people. We like to be heard and we like to…

— Viv Richards

The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep…

— Raoul Vaneigem

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

— Matthew Fox

Effectively, what we are saying to the governments of Europe is, 'OK, after 300 years, you have left these islands in a pretty bad…

— Hilary Beckles

I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

— Matthew Fox

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming,…

— Danny Glover