"I grew up in Trinidad speaking the way Trinidadians talk. That remained with me throughout all my years living abroad…"

"The American language is almost, in its way, a kind of experimental form, too, with the English language…"

"Every morning when Foster awoke, it was the same thing. The world spun in his brain. The world spun in his brain, and…"

"On New Year's Day, 1939, while Trinidadians who had money or hopes of winning money were attending the races in the Q…"

"People didn’t know what part of the world I came from and that was something that I felt ought to be corrected. Those…"

"I’d rather stay in ignorance. Mark you, it may be true that I am repeating something that has been said before, but i…"

"living in Canada, which is a developing country, I feel almost part of going along with the development, whereas in E…"

"[about the kind of English he used in his novels] it seemed to me that the only way to give expression to what happen…"

"when this immigration happened, for the first time the Trinidadian got to know the Jamaican or the Barbadian, because…"

"I would like to see writers writing about movement from one island to the other. I don't really want a novel about Tr…"