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George Lamming Quotes

1927–2022

George William Lamming OCC (born and died in Barbados; 8 June 1927 – 4 June 2022) was a writer and professor.

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The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up.

The West Indian People (1966)

It was a big thing to be a king. It meant that you were getting the feeling that you lived in a big room all by yourself where no one could see you and you were your own man. Free and alone.

In the Castle of My Skin (1953)

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