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“Desember Setelah beberapa tahun yang kejam Dan bulan-bulan yang putus asa Aku menemukan jalan pulang Pada lengan-lengan hujan yang damba Memelukku Lebih erat dari pelukan mantan”

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“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.”

Poet Memory Jamaica Caribbean Literature How To Say Babylon Safiya Sinclair

Book:How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

Source: How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

“The news about Eddoes and the shoes travelled round the street pretty quickly. My mother was annoyed. She said, ‘You see what sort of thing life is. Here I is, working my finger to the bone. Nobody flinging me a pair of shoes just like that, you know. And there you got that thin-arse little man, doing next to nothing, and look at all the things he does get.”

Trinidad Caribbean Literature Miguel Street

Book:Miguel Street

Source: Miguel Street

“Never give up! It's not that we fall, it's how we rise. Sometimes you have to take night and make day! When one door closes, many others will beckon you. Perseverance & determination can break any barrier. Its not how others see you, but how you see yourself; so crystalize that vision of you.”

Caribbean Literature Woman Writer Diaspora Aesthetics Caribbean Studies Migration Settlement

Author:Roselle Thompson

“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.”

Poetry Motherhood Memoir Jamaica Caribbean Literature How To Say Babylon Safiya Sinclair

Book:How to Say Babylon

Source: How to Say Babylon

“Those macho attitudes include many admirable things: a genuine love of courage, a surprising readiness to celebrate failure if it is bought with bravery, an unsparing sense of the fatality of human existence, a love of the small pleasures that ennoble it.”

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Author:Adam Gopnik (author)

“She lived just three blocks away, in a faded brick building whose limitations and malfunctions she’d come to understand as the texture of her life, to be distinguished from a normal day’s complaints.”

Newyorker Baader Meinhof

Author:Don DeLillo

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