Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple,… — Quoted

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“Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.”

V. S. Naipaul · Society

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Africa has no future.

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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.'

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The writer is all alone.

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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.

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