Patois Quotes

“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewing all the way down she back...
The only thing soft about Tan-Tan is she big molasses-brown eyes that could look on you, and your heart would beat time...”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Midnight Robber

“A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if looks were acid baths the two she collects from us would reduce her to gristle quicker than Mrs. Durand-Deacon.”
― Derek Raymond, The Crust on its Uppers

“CAN YOU TURN THAT OFF, GRANDMA?’ I shouted down. ‘YOU KNOW I AM STRUGGLING.’

There was a long pause.

‘Who yuh tink yuh talking to?’ my grandmother shouted back. ‘Yuh tink say you can be DJ inna my house cause of a man?”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie

“There is a marked difference between brilliance and intellectuality.
Some of us use both words interchangeably to describe people who can use big words.
A number of people are grandiloquent but not wise.
A person can be verbose but not esoteric.
Just as literacy does not equate to intelligence.


There are two types of learnt people in the world.
Some persons are scholars and others are alchemist.

Let me further my thesis on intellectuals.
Now you have a scholar and an alchemist.
The scholar passes exams, memorizes words and phrases, the alchemist has the intellectual prowess to start a whole new fundamental truth, discipline and school of thought because they can create concepts from their own minds without no external inputs.
Alchemist pass exams without studying because they just know how things work or they use context clue.
For that reason not every smart person is a genius.

Alchemist use their brains to change or improve the world with ingenuity and originality.

The alchemist has a way with words, when they speak you stop and listen. The alchemist is witty in any language (Creole or patois).
Let’s renounce the colonial concept that using Anglo-Saxon words is a mark of intelligence.

Eg.
Kartel speaks English- Kartel intelligent yuh fawk.”
― Crystal Evans, Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis