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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Martin Carter

Born: June 7, 1927
Died: December 13, 1997 (aged 70)
Bio: Martin Wylde Carter was a Guyanese poet and political activist. Widely regarded as the greatest Guyanese poet, and one of the most important poets of the Caribbean region, Carter is best known for his poems of protest, resistance and revolution.
Known for:
- University of Hunger
- Poems of succession (1977)
- Poems of resistance from British Guiana (1954)