We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal

The world is always in movement.

In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

It isn't that there's no right and wrong here. There's no right.