“I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect i...” — Derek Walcott Quote

I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.

I'd rather have just one person who reads and feels my work deeply than hundreds of thousands who read it but don't really care about.

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.

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

My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in race.

I think the Caribbean has been overlooked because guys don't really have the resources to get out and guys are less fortunate to make it to the U.S. and get scholarships and for people to come down and see them.

I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.

Even in the Caribbean, we enjoy a good curry because that's what India brought to the Caribbean.

When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all.