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

George Lamming

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.

George Lamming

George Lamming

George Lamming

Born: June 8, 1927

Died: June 4, 2022 (aged 94)

Bio: George Lamming was a Barbadian novelist, essayist and poet and an important figure in Caribbean literature.

Known for:

In the Castle of My Skin (1953)
The pleasures of exile (1960)
The emigrants (1954)
Season of adventure (1960)
Of age and innocence (1958)

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