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“People always ask me what is my favourite thing about Trinidad. It is a hard question because ! love the beaches and the music of Trinidad, but... I think the food is the best of all!”

Culture Food Caribbean Creole Trinidad And Tobago

Book:Juanita : A bilingual children's book set in Trinidad and Tobago

Source: Juanita : A bilingual children's book set in Trinidad and Tobago

“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

“Barbados -Crop Over/Kadooment Day, Brazil /Carnival, New Orleans /Mardi Gras, Trinidad /Jouvay”

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Author:Charmaine J. Forde

“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

“My heart was burning for home. For a moment I felt like crying out, but at the moment of greater pain my mother's voice came back to me. It was as if she was here and talking, Stay and take an education, boy. Take it in, That's the main thing.”

Education Caribbean Literature Trinidad And Tobago

Book:The Year in San Fernando (Cws

Source: The Year in San Fernando (Cws

“I had never examined this fear of Trinidad. I had never wished to. In my novels I had only expressed this fear; and it is only now, at the moment of writing, that I am able to attempt to examine it. I knew Trinidad to be unimportant, uncreative, cynical. The only professions were those of law and medicine, because there was no need for any other; and the most successful people were commission agents, bank managers and members of the distributive trades. Power was recognized, but dignity was allowed to no one. Every person of eminence was held to be crooked and contemptible. We lived in a society which denied itself heroes.”

Trinidad And Tobago

Book:The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited

Source: The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited

“Yuh cyah vex when soca playin”

Music Anger Caribbean Vexation Quotable Calypso Caribbean Literature Trinidad And Tobago Caribbean Music Soca Trinidad Creole

Book:Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

Source: Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest

“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

“Never tell your dreams to a person who has no vision.”

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Author:Tristan Walker

“The Trinidad Carnival and the calypso are both theatres in and metaphors through which the drama of Trinidad’s social history is encoded and enacted, historically a celebratory mass/mas theatre of contested social space: the domain of the stick ﬁghter, the Wild Indian, the Pierrot Grenade, the Midnight Robber, the chantwel and his descendant, the calypsonian, and the pan man of the emerging steelband movement into the 1960s.”

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Author:Gordon Rohlehr

“As I looked upon the lifeless body, devoid of tears, a cold-hearted resolve emerged, carrying the weight of unspoken grievances and a haunting desire for justice in the afterlife.”

Trinidad And Tobago Aaron Matthew Beharry

Book:Upbringing: Through Trials and Triumphs: A Journey of Faith, Love, and Self-Discovery

Source: Upbringing: Through Trials and Triumphs: A Journey of Faith, Love, and Self-Discovery