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

"The West Indian's education was imported in much the same way that flour and butter are imported from Canada. Since t…"

"Rain, rain, rain . . . my mother put her head through the window to let the neighbour know that I was nine, and they …"

"George Lamming is one of the most important writers in the African diaspora, and one whose work has touched illuminat…"

"in 1953, George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin appeared and everything was transformed. Here breathing to me from…"

"One feels not so much alone when, from a distant witness, supporting evidence comes to buttress one's own testimony. …"