George Lamming

“My subject is the migration of the colonial to the Mother Country.”

“To be a colonial is to be a man in a state of rage.”

“Language is a source of domination. It is not a neutral medium.”

“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.”

“Crime is a symptom of a diseased society.”

“The ceremony of innocence has been drowned.”

“The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up.”

“The journey had to be made. It was the price of the ticket.”

“The experience of my life, and the history of my country, have taught me that the triumph of the human spirit is not only possible but inevitable.”

“Every man is a politician. The man who says he is not a politician is a liar. He is a politician.”

“The peasant is the custodian of a continuity of values that constitutes the real substance of a national consciousness.”

“No novelist has the right to be a legislator or a prophet. He is a man who is a specialist at telling the truth.”