No civilization was so little equipped to cope with the outside world; no country was so easily raided and plundered, and learned so little from its … - V. S. Naipaul

A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say “Sum!” because he could see no more. But we who lived there saw our street as a world, where everybody was quite different from everybody else. Mam-man was mad; George was stupid; Big Foot was a bully; hat was an adventurer; Popo was a philosopher; and Morgan was our comedian.

Me black and beautiful’ was the first thing she taught me. Then she pointed to the policeman with the gun outside and taught me: ‘He pig.

found, to his surprise, that he had put an end to their threats.