“When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.”
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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.
One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
