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No black boy wanted to be white, but it was also true that no black boy liked the idea of being black... When you asked Boy Blue why he was so black he would answer 'Just as I wus goin' to born the light went out'. The light had gone out for many of us.

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The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up.

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An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
George Catlin

George Lamming

George Lamming

Born: June 8, 1927 (age 95)
Bio: George Lamming is a Barbadian novelist, essayist and poet and an important figure in Caribbean literature.
Known for:
  1. In the Castle of My Skin (1953)
  2. The pleasures of exile (1960)
  3. The emigrants (1954)
  4. Season of adventure (1960)
  5. Of age and innocence (1958)

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