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Earl Lovelace is a Jamaican novelist known for his profound insights into the social and cultural landscape of the Caribbean. His works often explore themes of race, class, and colonialism, with his most famous novel being 'The Dragon Can't Dance'.

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Famous Earl Lovelace Quotes

“All his life he had managed in such ways to disconnect himself from things which he couldn't escape and which threatened to define him in a way in which he didn't want to be defined, and go on untouched, untouched by things that should have touched him, hurt him, burned him.”

Strength Identity Resilience Personhood

Book:The Dragon Can't Dance

Source: The Dragon Can't Dance

“She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim”

Want Desire Development Trinidad

Author:Earl Lovelace

“Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain”

Greatness Alone New Beginnings

Book:Salt

Source: Salt

“When we woke up to the realization that we were independent and that independence meant having a culture that we could call our own, we discovered that all we had that might be termed indigenous or native was what had been created or reassembled and maintained here by those at the bottom of the economic ladder.”

Culture Independence Trinidad And Tobago

Author:Earl Lovelace

“Few have failed to observe that the much vaunted cultural creativity expressed in Trinidad and Tobago has come principally from the ordinary African descended people at the bottom of the economic ladder.”

Culture Black History Blackness Socioeconomic Status Caribbean History Trinidad And Tobago

Author:Earl Lovelace

“All of it was there but nothing had substance. It was as if they were all shadows, as if her leaving had taken the life out of the living things and left them shadows. he himself was a shadow.he felt no weight in his step, ,no sound to his voice, no solidity to his gestures. he forgot time. he felt the ache of a pain whose depth he could not fathom no whose end anticipate”

Change Heartbreak Lifelessness

Book:Salt

Source: Salt

“the sun had tanned her so that the rich velvety blackness of her skin glistened and she felt so much herself on those days of Carnival, soaked so deeply with a sense of her own beauty, that after the festival, she continued to keep her hair in the same fashion and wear her skin with the same pride, the result being that men took her for a foreign woman”

Women Beauty Carnival Trinidad And Tobago

Author:Earl Lovelace

“then suddenly one day he awake to find that time had gone; the house completed, the imortelle tree cut down, his mother dead.”

Time Change Time Flies Sudden Changes Over Time

Author:Earl Lovelace

“I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.”

Love Pain Moving Hurt Scared Alone Uncertainty Migration Unknowing

Author:Earl Lovelace

“Everybody, he mused had everything worked out. Except me”

Hurt Empty Alone Jealousy Alien Dispondent

Book:Salt

Source: Salt

“We are on the verge of listening”

Listening Verge

Author:Earl Lovelace

About the Author

Born: July 13, 1935
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 11

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