Caribbean women writers Quotes

“Midnight Omen Deja vu" - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean...at least once in a lifetime.”

“Midnight Omen Deja vu" - Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean...at least once in a lifetime.”

“I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.”

“My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.”

“Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.”

“When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'”

“I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.”

“The wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina Daza felt in her blood the wild beating of her free will.”

“It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.”

“Yuh cyah vex when soca playin”

“I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.”