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I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.

After a while, when the writer is mature, it doesn't really matter - not because of finances but because of reputation. It doesn't really matter how many awards you get.

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I don't want to write poems about the royal wedding. I would have to be moved by the event.

My relationship to Britain is of no consequence.

I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.

I consider the sound of the sea to be part of my body.

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

The myth of Naipaul... has long been a farce.

The greatest writers have been, at heart, parochial, provincial in their rootedness.

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.

I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.

The older I get, the more aware I am of the banality and indifference of a place like Trinidad to any development of the arts.

For so long, the world has viewed West Indian culture as semiliterate and backward, which it is not. In my work, I have tried to give that world an exposure so the world can better understand it.

A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.

There is a restless identity in the New World. The New World needs an identity without guilt or blame.

In painting, you don't have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn't.

The Caribbean is an immense ocean that just happens to have a few islands in it. The people have an immense respect for it, awe of it.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do.

I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot...

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