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#1

“I believe a writer is...the scribe-griot of his/her nation. S/he has the power to incite, ignite, excite, pacify, edify, motivate and eliminate others with the slash of a pen, click of a mouse or swipe of a finger. Though coloured by time, class, age, geography, childhood and other factors, a writer crystallises a slice of his/her society's culture, mores and its dark and light truths. A writer makes everything real.”
― Sandra Sealy

tags: barbados, caribbean-literature, caribbean-women-writers, culture, inspirational-quotes, the-arts, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-life, writing-quotes

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#2

“What are we to do in this time? How do we function? How do we not completely lose it?

I choose to use my #pen
to cut open my shell
to release the pus
of pain and trauma
and loss
mixed with
sludge-like #ash.”
― Sandra Sealy, Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems

tags: 2020, dealing-with-loss, grief-and-loss, loss, pain, st-vincent, trauma, volcano, writing-process

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#3

“She rises-
hips rippling
to a silent merengue
bearing sloshing vessels homeward,
a little water breaking the relief
of dust on her feet-
reflecting
how women seem
to grip the secret
of wringing
the blue cloth of sorrow
dry to make wine.

-Excerpt from Sandra Sealy's poem "Haitian Water Bearer" in "Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems”
― Sandra Sealy, Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems

tags: art, caribbean-woman, haiti, poetry, seawoman, strength-through-adversity, west-indian-literature

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#4

“I'd tell anyone who wants to be a podcaster, the same thing others have recommended - find a niche you're passionate about and willing to be immersed in.”
― Sandra Sealy, Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems

tags: caribbean-podcasts, podcast, podcast-advice, podcast-personality, podcaster, podcaster-quote, podcasting, podcasts, seawoman-chronicles-the-podcast, spotify

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#5

“Women have always had to be #creative about making limited resources work to sustain themselves and their families. They understand what it means to make the hard decisions and to just get on with it.

That is why it is imperative for women not just to be the ones dusting off the table but, crafting its legs for our world to stand on.”
― Sandra Sealy, Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems

tags: creativity, feminism, gender-equality, international-womens-day, leadership, women-in-politics, womens-rights, world-economies

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#6

“During those times I feel guilty or cut off from producing, I need to remember I am in cocoon mode. Sometimes you just need to binge watch movies or sleep or do nothing at all…for months.
But I assure you, that a gorgeous butterfly emerges ready & re-energized; to light up the world with new ideas, content & #writing,”
― Sandra Sealy, Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems

tags: artists-quotes, caribbeanwriters, creativeprocess, creativity, lifebalance, mentalbreaks, mentalhealth, writers-on-writing, writinglife

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#7

“For me, a father supplies sperm and his part of the chromosomes necessary for life. But a dad? He gives of his time & wisdom while nurturing forever memories and life lessons with his heart.”
― Sandra Sealy

tags: dad, dads, father, father-s-day, fathers-and-daughters, love, parenting

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#8

“Writing reminds me of carving a sculpture. The early rough hewing doesn't look too pretty but is necessary to reveal the chiseled artistry beneath.”
― Sandra Sealy, Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems

tags: artist, author, creativity, wriing-life, writing-process

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#9

“Discovering Distilled Creativity
"Amazing how sitting down to listen with no distractions - no tv, no devices, no radio - can enhance your life; the sigh of the wind the only ambient noise. Then, in that still moment, your distilled creativity comes because you feel so connected to the Universe.”
― Sandra Sealy

tags: art, creativity, inspirational, nature, writing, writing-life

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#10

“I've noticed one of the marks of a good piece - whether it be a book, film, #poem, song or other type of #story - is that you notice something new every time you revisit it.”
― Sandra Sealy, Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems

tags: artists, books, crafting, creative-process, creativity, film, music, song, storytelling-quotes, writing

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#11

“You are the jewel
in the crown of motherhood.”
― Sandra Sealy, Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems

tags: caribbean-writer, child-rearing, mom, mother, mothers-day, quotes-about-motherhood, womanhood

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#12

“Birthday Card To #Barbados

You are 166 sq miles
of sweet, undulating beauty-
replete with richness and contradiction.
I could never be all I am...
without you,
Never knew how hard I'd fall - especially
when I am away from you.

Happy Birthday, Bim”
― Sandra Sealy, Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems

tags: barbados, caribbean-writers, independence, inspiration, personification, poem

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#13

“Thankfully existing only in SMALL pockets within our discipline, is “intellectual” snobbery. It’s a hushed but ugly truth that people are made to feel not worthy to be among a certain set – didn’t attend the right school or don’t have the requisite abbreviations to follow their name. I know what that feels like. Good thing I'm pigheaded, have a bigger vision and committed to my craft, or I would’ve succumbed to it long ago. That is why when I meet an emerging writer who’s serious about developing their craft, I try to encourage them as much as I can. I say IGNORE the highbrow cliques and prove your mettle by growing, accepting balanced feedback and most of all, creating work that will stand the test of time. Period.”
― Sandra Sealy

tags: courage, inspirational, naysayers, writing, writing-advice, writing-life

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#14

“...it is not enough to be free
of the whips, principalities and powers”
― Kamau Brathwaite, The arrivants;: A new world trilogy

tags: freedom, independence, mental-slavery, power

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#15

“The experience of slavery is the bedrock on which Caribbean society has been founded.”
― Sharon Hurley Hall, Exploring Shadeism

tags: barbados, caribbean, ethnicity, race, racism, slavery

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#16

“If a writer knows everything that is going to happen, then his book is dead before he begins it.”
― V.S. Naipaul

tags: naipaul, writing, writing-process-writing-advice

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#17

“To ask how I feel about writing is to ask how I feel about breathing.”
― Shakirah Bourne, In Time of Need

tags: bajan-writer, barbados, caribbean-literature, creativity, inspirational, shakirah-bourne, west-indian, writing-life

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#18

“To be white in the Caribbean is to have money, power, and the freedom to do anything or nothing - it is, in many cases, to occupy the top rung of society.”
― Sharon Hurley Hall, Exploring Shadeism

tags: barbados, caribbean, ethnicity, race, racism, slavery

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#19

“Not every skin-teeth
is a smile 'Massa'

if you see me smiling
when you pass

if you see me bending
when you ask

Know that I smile
know that I bend

only the better
to rise and strike
again”
― Grace Nichols, The Fat Black Woman's Poems

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#20

“When I write, regardless of what I’m writing, or how I approach the writing task, I’ve got this image or shape or feeling inside me somewhere, a sort of embroidery pattern, a sort of magic-pencil outline, a sort of distant melody." — Pamela Mordecai”
― Pamela Mordecai

tags: author, poet, writer, writing

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#21

“We were in Africa". I know, I know. What were we doing there? We must have lived, somehow. Eaten, slept, raised children? Was it so savage and horrible that it is netter forgotten? Who can tell me? No one. Because nobody knows and everyone takes for granted what they've been told.”
― Maryse Condé, Heremakhonon

tags: africa, panafricanism, posctolonial

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#22

“The truth always arrive too late because it walks slower than lies. Truth crawls at a snail's pace.”
― Maryse Condé, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

tags: i-tituba-black-wittch-of-salem, maryse-conde, page-130, tituba

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#23

“Always, from the first time he went there to see Eros and the lights, that circus have a magnet for him, that circus represent life, that circus is the beginning and the ending of the world. Every time he go there, he have the same feeling like when he see it the first night, drink coca-cola, any time is guinness time, bovril and the fireworks, a million flashing lights, gay laughter, the wide doors of theatres, the huge posters, everready batteries, rich people going into tall hotels, people going to the theatre, people sitting and standing and walking and talking and laughing and buses and cars and Galahad Esquire, in all this, standing there in the big city, in London. Oh Lord.”
― Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

tags: london, piccadilly-circus

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#24

“Life is too kind to men, whatever their color.”
― Maryse Condé, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

tags: i-tituba-black-wittch-of-salem, maryse-conde, page-130

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#25

“Cruelty, yes: it was in the nature of Indian family life. The clan that gave protection and identity, and saved people from the void, was itself a little state, and it could be a hard place, full of politics, full of hatreds and changing alliances and moran denunciations. It was the kind of family life I had known for much of my childhood: an early introduction to the ways of the world, and to the nature of cruelty. It had given me, as I suspected it had given Kala, a taste for the other kind of life, the solitary or less corwded life...”
― V.S Naipaul

tags: india-one-million-mutinies-now, naipaul, stephjotsdown

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#26

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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#27

“You are on this planet because God called you to be here. Follow your call and live the life you were created to live.”
― Dianne Sealy-Skerritt, When God Calls: Listening, Hearing and Responding

tags: christianity, faith, god, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, purpose-driven-life, purpose-of-life

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#28

“The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.”
― James Baldwin

tags: craft, poets, writing

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#29

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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#30

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: inspiration

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