- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean in the Lesser Antilles, the lower part of the archipelago, which is a bilingual island - French, Creole, and English - but my education is in English.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel blessed that I was gifted.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.
- Heritage
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go back to St. Lucia, and the exhilaration I feel is not simply the exhilaration of homecoming and of nostalgia. It is almost an irritation of feeling: 'Well, you never got it right. Now you have another chance. Maybe you can try and look harder.'
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical society. It is a society of physical performance. It is a society of style.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it.
- Cost
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in race.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020