Quotes by Trinidadian Authors - Page 4

I believe that life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive.
Nicki Minaj
Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her like a woman instead of a child. Everybody thought she was a whore. She wasn’t. She tried to step across the border of who she was and who she might be. They wouldn’t let her. She didn’t believe it herself so she stepped across into a whole other country.
Dionne Brand
Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
You can't find "it" out there
Akosua Dardaine Edwards
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
The voice of love calls to you, my son.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
being well and well being is my way of life
Akosua Dardaine Edwards
Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust rags to rags fear to fear.
V.S. Naipaul
Certain emotions bridge the years and link unlikely places.
V.S. Naipaul
Laughter is much better than anger.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
so little of what anything means comes through words.
André Alexis
Life is difficult and those who make us laugh are angels.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.
V.S. Naipaul
Even in an empty room, we are never alone.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Don't let anything be too much for you
Claudia Pegus
Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
Blaming has no positive effect at all
Akosua Dardaine Edwards
Don't overthink yourself out of something good!
Akosua Dardaine Edwards
Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their society, but nevertheless the very dregs of human civilisation and moral standards. A historian who finds excuses for such conduct by references to the supposed spirit of the times, or by omission, or by silence, shows thereby that his account of events is not to be trusted.
C.L.R. James
Where there is great love there is great harmony of thought.
Wayne Gerard Trotman