Trinidad Quotes

• I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.

  Peter Doig

  Harsh

  "Peter Doig: the outsider comes home". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

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• In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Ideas, Community, India

  V.S. Naipaul (2010). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.239, Vintage

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• Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Simple, May, Philistines

  "Reluctant hero" by Caryl Phillips, www.theguardian.com. Ocotber 11, 2001.

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• I grew up on the island, Trinidad to be exact, and I never thought it would be possible. These sort of things happen once in a lifetime. I just know God is bigger than me and everything I do is to serve and please Him.

  Heather Headley

  Islands, Would Be, Once In A Lifetime

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.

  Michael Jackson

  Country, Hate, Real

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• I want to use my position of influence to change the laws of the land to the benefit of the women of Trinidad and Tobago, divide the economic pie more evenly and appoint more women to positions within the government.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Government, Law, Land

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Cards, Atm, Cash

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• People ask me all the time how I got hired onto the Office. Another common question is how do I manage to stay so down-to-earth in the face of such incredible success? ... A third frequently asked question is: "Girl, where you from? Trinidad? Guyana? Dominican Republic? You married? You got kids?" This is mostly asked by guys on the sidewalk selling I LOVE NEW YORK paraphernalia in New York City.

  Mindy Kaling

  Girl, New York, Kids

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• 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.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Fate, Squares, India

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• You don't have to come from Trinidad to really love Harry Belafonte, you don't have to come from the West Coast to appreciate the simplicity and the beauty of the songs Kurt Cobain wrote.

  Seth Avett

  Song, Appreciate, Simplicity

  "Banjo Players Are Incestuous Rednecks". Interview with Karmah Elmusa, www.motherjones.com. July 16, 2011.

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• When I was growing up, I grew up in church--my father was a pastor--so when I was growing up in Trinidad, I'd close all the windows in the church and go in the church every day after school and get a little microphone and pretend all these people were in the pews, and I would sing to them.

  Heather Headley

  Growing Up, Father, School

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• Nothing was made in Trinidad.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Made

  "A singular writer" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.

  Andrea McLean

  Children, Ideas, Sugar

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• I played a lot of the original Fight Night. I think the depiction of Trinidad in the game was awesome.

  Diego Corrales

  Fighting, Night, Thinking

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