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Quotes About Martinique

In Martinique, when the whistle blew for the tourists to get back on the ship, I had a quick, wild, and lovely moment when I decided I wouldn't get back on the ship. I did, though. And I found that somebody had stolen the pants to my dinner jacket.
~ James Thurber
My grandmother is from Martinique, so sometimes I'm ashamed that I don't speak Creole.
~ Josephine Jobert
Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
~ Aaron Neville
I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams.
~ James Lee Burke
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.
~ Michel-Rolph Trouillot
They were all to cross the Atlantic and link up with Admiral Missiessy off Martinique.
~ Unknown