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Quotes by Trinidadian authors

Trinidadian FlagTrinidad and Tobago is a country with a rich cultural heritage, reflecting the diverse histories of its individuals. From the rhythms of calypso and soca songs to the colorful practices of Carnival, Trinidad and also Tobago is a country that commemorates life, pleasure, as well as resilience. In this article, we will certainly check out a few of the most unforgettable and also inspiring quotes from Trinidadian poets, writers, as well as leaders. These quotes use insight into the challenges and also accomplishments of the Trinidadian people, as well as the worths and ideas that are essential to their society. Whether discussing identification, creativity, or the relevance of neighborhood, these quotes provide a glimpse right into the unique society and heritage of Trinidad as well as Tobago.
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Small: The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh ove
"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts"
Derek Walcott, Playwright
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Small: All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market
"All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writers heaven
"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven"
Derek Walcott, Playwright
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Small: The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is ones biography, joins in that sound, with any lu
"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island"
Derek Walcott, Playwright
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Small: Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic
"Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic"
Derek Walcott, Playwright
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Small: Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh o
"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves"
Derek Walcott, Playwright
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Small: Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry f
"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole"
Derek Walcott, Playwright
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Small: If you know what you are going to write when youre writing a poem, its going to be average
"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average"
Derek Walcott, Playwright
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Small: A culture, we all know, is made by its cities
"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities"
Derek Walcott, Playwright
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Small: We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past
"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past"
Derek Walcott, Playwright
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Small: This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker
"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo"
Derek Walcott, Playwright
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Small: The English language is nobodys special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of
"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself"
Derek Walcott, Playwright
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Small: Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those
"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god"
Derek Walcott, Playwright
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Small: The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the
"The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken
"It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Tro
"I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accep
"Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences
"Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was.
"I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yard
"I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contem
"The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelms Germany was defeated
"It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combinati
"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense
"I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved
"Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca
"All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation
"Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and
"The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be fou
"One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study
"As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known
"The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage
"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking des
"Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isol
"The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - i
"The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change
"Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the str
"In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: I may as well say it, I have been married three times
"I may as well say it, I have been married three times"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle
"First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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Small: After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more agai
"After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government"
C. L. R. James, Journalist
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