Trinidad Quotes

“Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.”

“'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.”

“I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.”

“Yuh cyah vex when soca playin”

“She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim”