To a haughty belly, kindness is hard to swallow and harder to digest.

So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.

There's two things everybody got to find out for themselves: they got to find out about love, and they got to find out about living. Now, love is like the sea. It's a moving thing. And it's different on every shore. And living... well... There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

I regret all of my books.

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.