Natives of My Person Quotes

“Work, you call it. You will sail again, I know. So tell me, answer me now. What will you kill when all the mines are empty, when every offspring of the Tribes is dead and buried? Tell me. You will sail, I know. So answer me now. Whose women will you murder next? Tell me, answer me, before you sail. Whose children will you strangle next?”
― George Lamming, Natives of My Person: A Novel

“Prudent, I say. That is the name for every robbery which gets the signature of the Lord Treasurer to the House of Trade and Justice. Gabriel Tate de Lysle, I say; the name I hear you revere; a man who believes it is never prudent to utter any truth which goes against the trade and justice of the merchants in the House. “It is not prudent to relieve hunger among the massive armies of tramps who populate the countryside.”
― George Lamming, Natives of My Person: A Novel

“For I have seen men of the basest natures erect themselves into gentlemen of honor the moment they were given orders to seize command over the savage tribes of the Indies. Here is a perfect school in the arts of conquest and command!”
― George Lamming, Natives of My Person: A Novel