"One feels not so much alone when, from a distant witness, supporting evidence comes to buttress one's own testimony. And the voice I now bid you hear is sounding in Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin."
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Richard Wright, from his introduction to the American edition of Castle of My Skin
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George Lamming
George William Lamming OCC (born and died in Barbados; 8 June 1927 – 4 June 2022) was a writer and professor.
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