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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.

— George Lamming In the Castle of My Skin (1953)

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

The West Indian People (1966)

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