Quotes About Caribbean

It is not that History is obliterated by this sunrise. It is there in Antillean geography, in the vegetation itself. The sea sighs with the drowned from the Middle Passage, the butchery of its aborigines, Carib and Aruac and Taino, bleeds in the scarlet of the immortelle, and even the actions of surf on sand cannot erase the African memory, or the lances of cane as a green prison where indentured Asians, the ancestors of Felicity, are still serving time.

A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.

The devil made him do it: There's little question San Francisco radio talk-show host Larry Krueger deserved to be fired for calling some Giants brain-dead Caribbean hitters hacking away at slop. ... a messenger of Satan, and I believe there is no forgiveness for Satan.

earth from these fields washed into the rivers and down into the Caribbean, where it settled on fragile coral reefs and destroyed them.

it was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; Columbus never set foot there but only named it in passing, after a church in Spain.

Sounds awful. No, it's wonderful. And it's just for one year. Let's take a break. Blair's not here. she'll be back next year and we can jump back into the Christmas chaos, if that's what you want. Come on, Nora, please. We skip Christmas, save the money, and go splash in the Caribbean for ten days. How much will it cost? Three thousand bucks. So we save money? Absolutely. When do we leave? High noon, Christmas Day. They stared at each other for a long time.

He nodded at the big leather bags. "What's in there?" "Papers." "Papers?" "Papers." "What kind of papers?" Toilet paper, she thought. I spend my vacations traveling the Caribbean collecting toilet paper. "Legal documents, crap like that. I'm a lawyer.

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.

U.S. global sovereignty abroad, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, is widely recognized as buttressed by practices of torture by U.S. officials and their proxies, if not by outright war (covert and overt) that terrorizes a people. The

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

French Caribbean island of Martinique, a tiny territory less than one-fourth the size of Long Island, imported more slaves than all the U.S. states combined.

after his second and more satisfying career in the service of the American state, the furniture of Ellsworth Bunker's mind had settled into place. It was impossible for him not to see Vietnam in the perspective of the Caribbean and Central America.

rusty, overloaded freighters from the Caribbean and Latin America.