Merle Hodge Quotes

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Everything was changing, unrecognizable, pushing me out. This was as it should be, since I had moved up and no longer had any place here. But it was painful, and I longed all the more to be on my way.... I desired with all my heart that it were the next morning and a plane were lifting me off the ground.

Merle Hodge

Hm! You see the family I got! Spend my life teaching my children to be decent, teaching them what is important, and then they forget who it was that got them where they are.

Merle Hodge

Merle Hodge

Merle Hodge

Born: 1944 (age 80)

Bio: Merle Hodge is a Trinidadian novelist and critic. Her 1970 novel Crick Crack, Monkey is a classic of West Indian literature.

Known for:

Crick crack, monkey (1970)
For the Life of Laetitia (1993)
Crick crack, monkey: roman trinidadien (1982)
AWS CWS Resource Pk 4th and 5th Frm (1986)

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