One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
Author: V S Naipaul
It is important not to trust people too much.
It is important not to trust people too much.
When I learnt to write I became my own master I became very strong and that strength is with me to this very day.
When I learnt to write I became my own master I became very strong and that strength is with me to this very day.
Trinidad may seem complex but to anyone who knows it it is a simple colonial philistine society.
Trinidad may seem complex but to anyone who knows it it is a simple colonial philistine society.
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
Home is I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
Home is I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
To be converted you have to destroy your past destroy your history. You have to stamp on it you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist it doesn't matter.'
To be converted you have to destroy your past destroy your history. You have to stamp on it you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist it doesn't matter.'
Great writing can be done in biography history art.
Great writing can be done in biography history art.
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation about history and your group and what you are doing… if you begin from the point of view of being a victim you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation about history and your group and what you are doing… if you begin from the point of view of being a victim you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
Africa has no future.
Africa has no future.
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience because it's complete. For another kind of writer life goes on and he's able to keep processing that as well.
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience because it's complete. For another kind of writer life goes on and he's able to keep processing that as well.
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.