Quotes by Trinidadian Authors - Page 2

The same beautiful receptionist greeted Christian who had met him before and she extended the same lush invitation as she had the last time. Victoria's eyes narrowed and Christian chuckled under his breath at her jealousy."Relax chérie, she's paid to do that." "Well, she didn't come on to me, so obviously she's not doing her job properly," Victoria said. Christian laughed.
Amalie Howard
So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
To go back home was to play with impressions in this way, the way I played with the first pair of glasses I had, looking at a world now sharp and small and not quite real, now standard in size and real but blurred.
V.S. Naipaul
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. You refer to yourself in order to understand other people. That's the novelist's gift, isn't it?
V.S. Naipaul
Optimists are usually inexperienced.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Your glass seems like it will always be half full even it falls down and shatters to pieces
Kevin Jared Hosein
Amidst all the bacchanal and confusion in your life, find something to be grateful for, even if it is the air that you breath and trust me, this will transform you in some small way. Gratitude is really really the great multiplier.
Akosua Dardaine Edwards
Everybody, he mused had everything worked out. Except me
Earl Lovelace
I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.
Earl Lovelace
Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
How we flounder when emotion overtakes us.
V.S. Naipaul
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
Earl Lovelace
Don't overthink yourself out of something good!
Akosua Dardaine Edwards
Something inside of me won't let me play small
Akosua Dardaine Edwards
Get started, there is nothing left to discuss. Do it. Now!
Akosua Dardaine Edwards
Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
And this is when I knew I was black for real.This is when I knew black was a citywhose walls were constantly under siege....
Roger Bonair-Agard
Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain
Earl Lovelace
To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
The old longing i had thought dead, rose in me like a flame
Sam Selvon
Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Yuh cyah vex when soca playin
Wayne Gerard Trotman
If you cannot see it, you will not be it
Akosua Dardaine Edwards
Death was in every fibre of these creatures. It was hidden in their languages and at the root of their civilizations. You could hear it in the sounds they made and see it in the way they moved. It darkened their pleasures and lightened their despair.
André Alexis
With experience comes improvement.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
May the scribes record it.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
May it be written. May it be done.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Fear sees, even when eyes are closed.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Death whispers your name to me.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform for training.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the total white community against the black community. We call these individual racism and institutional racism. The first consists of overt acts by individuals, which cause death, injury or the violent destruction of property. This type can be recorded by television cameras; it can frequently be observed in the process of commission. The second type is less overt, far more subtle, less identifiable in terms of specific individuals committing the acts. But it is no less destructive of human life. The second type originates in the operation of established and respected forces in the society, and thus receives far less public condemnation than the first type. When white terrorists bomb a black church and kill five black children, that is an act of individual racism, widely deplored by most segments of the society. But when in that same city - Birmingham, Alabama - five hundred black babies die each year because of the lack of proper food, shelter and medical facilities, and thousands more are destroyed and maimed physically, emotionally and intellectually because of conditions of poverty and discrimination in the black community, that is a function of institutional racism. When a black family moves into a home in a white neighborhood and is stoned, burned or routed out, they are victims of an overt act of individual racism which many people will condemn - at least in words. But it is institutional racism that keeps black people locked in dilapidated slum tenements, subject to the daily prey of exploitative slumlords, merchants, loan sharks and discriminatory real estate agents. The society either pretends it does not know of this latter situation, or is in fact incapable of doing anything meaningful about it.
Stokely Carmichael
Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
...Anand, look at the back of my hands. No hair. The sign of an advanced race, boy. And look at yours. No hair either. But you never know. With some of your mother's bad blood flowing in your veins you could wake up one morning and find yourself hairy like a monkey
V.S. Naipaul
I already fear for my life just because of who I am, you think adding a little inconsequential vampire to the equation will change any of that?
Amalie Howard
perfection is a form of fear
Akosua Dardaine Edwards
Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.
Nicki Minaj
Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Who ask don't getwho don't ask don't wantwho don't want don't getwho don't getdon't care
Merle Hodge
She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim
Earl Lovelace
Imagine how many suicide victims would still be with us, if only the right person said the right thing at the right time.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
You crave winning and fear losing instead of just doing. To succeed you must remove your self-imposed limitations.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
The world has become jaded. Romance has died, some no longer believe in love, and because of this, they suffer.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
A place without meaning is no place to be.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
The voice of love calls to you, my son.
Wayne Gerard Trotman