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Quotes from The Schooner Flight — Derek Walcott

1930–2017

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I try to forget what happiness was,
and when that don't work, I study the stars.

The Schooner Flight (1980)

I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,
I had a sound colonial education,
I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,
and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.

The Schooner Flight (1980)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Derek Walcott (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.