Harmony Farrell

“Slavery was not born of racism; racism was the consequence of slavery”
― Eric Williams, Capitalism & Slavery

“Few have failed to observe that the much vaunted cultural creativity expressed in Trinidad and Tobago has come principally from the ordinary African descended people at the bottom of the economic ladder.”
― Earl Lovelace

“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 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