“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.” CultureIndependenceTrinidad 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.” CultureBlack HistoryBlacknessSocioeconomic StatusCaribbean HistoryTrinidad And Tobago Author:Earl Lovelace
“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” WomenBeautyCarnivalTrinidad And Tobago Author:Earl Lovelace
