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''Statistics justify and scholars seize
The salients of colonial policy.
What is that to the white child hacked in bed?
To savages, expendable as Jews?''
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Derek Walcott (b. 1930), Carribbean poet. A Far Cry from Africa (l. 7-10). . .
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 [Derek Walcott]. (1986) Farrar, Straus a...
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''A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt
Of Africa. Kikuyu, quick as flies,
Batten upon the bloodstreams of the veldt.''
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Derek Walcott (b. 1930), Carribbean poet. A Far Cry from Africa (l. 1-3). . .
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 [Derek Walcott]. (1986) Farrar, Straus an...
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I who have cursed
The drunken officer of British rule, how choose
Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?
Betray them both, or give back what they give?
How can I face s...
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Derek Walcott (b. 1930), Carribbean poet. A Far Cry from Africa (l. 28-33). . .
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 [Derek Walcott]. (1986) Farrar, Straus ...
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''Again brutish necessity wipes its hands
Upon the napkin of a dirty cause,''
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Derek Walcott (b. 1930), Carribbean poet. A Far Cry from Africa (l. 22-23). . .
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 [Derek Walcott]. (1986) Farrar, Straus ...
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''Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.''
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Derek Walcott (b. 1930), West Indian poet, playwright. "Dissolving the Sigh of History," Guardian (London, Dec. 16, 1992).
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''I try to forget what happiness was,
and when that don't work, I study the stars.''
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Derek Walcott (b. 1930), West Indian poet, playwright. "Flight," sect. 11, The Schooner, in The Star-Apple Kingdom (1980).
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''The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.''
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Derek Walcott (b. 1930), West Indian poet, playwright. Interview in Writers at Work, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton (1988).
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''I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.''
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Derek Walcott (b. 1930), West Indian poet, playwright. Interview in Writers at Work, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton (1988).
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''Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.''
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Derek Walcott (b. 1930), West Indian poet, playwright. Interview in Writers at Work, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton (1988).
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