“As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him.” InspirationalGrowthMemoir Book:How to Say Babylon Source: How to Say Babylon
“The word "cannibal," the English variant of the Spanish word canibal, comes from the word caribal, a reference to the native Carib people in the West Indies, who Columbus thought ate human flesh and from whom the word "Caribbean" originated. By virtue of being Caribbean, all "West Indian" people are already, in a purely linguistic sense, born savage.” CaribbeanCannibalSavageWest Indian Book:Cannibal Source: Cannibal
“Memory is a river. Memory is a pebble at the bottom of the river, slippery with the moss of our living hours. Memory is a tributary, a brackish stream returning to the oceam that dreamt it. Memory is the sea. Memory is the house on the sand with a red door I have stepped through, trying to remember the history of the waves.” PoetMemoryJamaicaCaribbean LiteratureHow To Say BabylonSafiya Sinclair Book:How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir Source: How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
“When I was a girl, my mother had taught me to read the waves of her seaside as closely as a poem. There was nothing broken that the sea couldn’t fix, she always said.” PoetryMotherhoodMemoirJamaicaCaribbean LiteratureHow To Say BabylonSafiya Sinclair Book:How to Say Babylon Source: How to Say Babylon