Caribbean Quotes - Page 2

• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

  Warren Christopher

  Country, Hymns, Two

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• My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

  Katherine Dunham

  People, Eclectic Style, Fallen

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• I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.

  Joseph Force Crater

  Book, Agency, Aviation

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• The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

  Eliot Engel

  Country, Numbers, Needs

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• Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

  Charles Rangel

  Growing, Today, Hospitality

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• Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Canada, United States, Lows

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• Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

  William H. Macy

  Girl, Real, Holy Grail

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• I meet a lot of characters in the
  islands, people who're running -- who're
  happier on a fishing boat than they
  are back home.When I first got
  down there,I don't know if I was
  running from a real bad heartbreak
  or running to something I thought
  would make me feel better.But
  since I've been spending time in
  the Caribbean, I've come to realize
  that I've got nothing to run from.

  Kenny Chesney

  Running, Real, Home

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• I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Ocean, Islands, Sea

  "Jamaica Kincaid talks about 'See Now Then'". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. February 16, 2013.

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• I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.

  Penelope Cruz

  Perfect, Monkeys, States

  Interview With Marion Cotillard, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2009.

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• The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.

  Junot Diaz

  People, Population, World

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• I'm definitely trying to incorporate a Caribbean and reggae element.

  Kreesha Turner

  Trying, Elements, Reggae

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination.

  Arthur Frommer

  Nicaragua, Becoming, Destination

  Arthur Frommer (2009). “Ask Arthur Frommer: And Travel Better, Cheaper, Smarter”, p.329, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you love Black people, why are you destroying Haiti? If you love Black people, why did you, [Hillary] Clinton, stop them from the rice that they were producing in Haiti to feed themselves and other Caribbean nations? You put the rice industry out of business; and now rice is coming from Arkansas, chicken coming from Arkansas, when it once was growing right there in Haiti.

  Louis Farrakhan

  People, Black, Growing

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". Interview with DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God and Angela Yee, www.finalcall.com. May 24, 2016.

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• Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls of fame,wine, women, and all the drugs under the sun - one constant companion has never abandoned me . My first true love : singing Its been the savior of many poor boy, and God I know I'm one

  Eric Burdon

  Wine, Boys, Islands

  Eric Burdon, Jeff Marshall Craig (2002). “Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood”, p.316, Da Capo Press

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• It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  United States, Curious, Gender

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• I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

  Jimmy Buffett

  Heart, Texas, Soul

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• Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Letting Go, Heart, Dark

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• You've got to take responsibility for the hell that you've been giving to our people not only in America, but in Haiti and the Caribbean, and now in Africa. [Hillary] Clinton, your hand is bloody

  Louis Farrakhan

  Responsibility, Hands, America

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You can’t hate the land, your motherland, the place that you come from, and we can’t hate Africa without ending up hating ourselves. The Black man in the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central America, South America, and in the Caribbean—is the best example of how one can be made, skillfully, to hate himself that you can find anywhere on this earth.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Men, America

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• My wife and I always have a winter holiday that I call the "fly and flop". In January and February, you don't want culture, you just want to get your bones warm and eat, drink, sleep. We usually go to the Caribbean.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Holiday, Sleep, Winter

  "Alan Titchmarsh: 'I went white-water rafting in Costa Rica... I'm just thankful I stayed afloat'". Interview with Sarah Ewing, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 10, 2016.

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• I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Work, Beer

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• How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.

  Calvin Trillin

  Travel, Home, Islands

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• I don't buy a lot of things. I like to create things. I've been lucky enough to be able to build my beautiful island in the Caribbean. I certainly haven't regretted that.

  Richard Branson

  Beautiful, Islands, Lucky

  A Drink With Interview, adrinkwith.com. April 29, 2015.

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• So far, I've only sailed in the Caribbean. I've sailed the Virgin Island and The Grenadines. I liked all that. We charted some really crummy boats in the Grenadines. That made for an exciting sailing trip (laughs) when everything goes well. When everything goes well. When sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it's terrible and amazing stuff.

  Bill Murray

  Rip, Islands, Laughing

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