West Indian Quotes

“For isn't it odd that the only language I have in which to speak of this crime is the language of the criminal who committed the crime?”
― Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place

“The word "cannibal," the English variant of the Spanish word canibal, comes from the word caribal, a reference to the native Carib people in the West Indies, who Columbus thought ate human flesh and from whom the word "Caribbean" originated. By virtue of being Caribbean, all "West Indian" people are already, in a purely linguistic sense, born savage.”
― Safiya Sinclair, Cannibal

“To ask how I feel about writing is to ask how I feel about breathing.”
― Shakirah Bourne, In Time of Need

“Ever so welcome, wait for a call"
(West Indian proverb)”
― Charmaine J Forde

“One of the major differences between ritual and theatre is that in ritual one communicates with the gods whereas in theatre communication is established with a human audience”
― Errol Hill

“The difference between you and I Dre is that i can take a bad experience and make money off it, You just have to live with yours until time blurs your memory of the details.
Most writers i know aren't beautiful by society's standard. Writing is not modelling but Writer's do have beautiful souls.”
― Crystal Evans, The Bunna Man: Joe Grind Series

“The Trinidad Carnival and the calypso are both theatres in and metaphors through which the drama of Trinidad’s social history is encoded and enacted, historically a celebratory mass/mas theatre of contested social space: the domain of the stick fighter, the Wild Indian, the Pierrot Grenade, the Midnight Robber, the chantwel and his descendant, the calypsonian, and the pan man of the emerging steelband movement into the 1960s.”
― Gordon Rohlehr