My dad's from Barbados, but I lived with my mum. She brought me up; my uncle took me to the football. I grew up in a white family, I'd say.
I want to give my daughter that Caribbean influence. But also, just being a black girl in this country, I want her to grow up with culture and confidence, and with love.
My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
The Florida sound would probably be best defined as heavy bass with high energy dance records. There's a strong Caribbean heritage in Florida which features a lot of uptempo music, and the music accents the sexy, body-oriented sound.
I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.
My immediate family are from the West Indies - from Trinidad and Grenada - and I have relatives all over the Caribbean.
I was born in New York, but I'm of Cuban heritage. Maybe there's a little island in my blood.
The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.
I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.
I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.
When I was a young child and before he had left us for the U.S., my father would give me Mark Twain novels. In the characters, the weather and the context, my father must have seen many parallels to his own youth in the Caribbean in the 1930s and 40s.
Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.
My mom's Puerto Rican. That's why I'm so lively and colorful.
People ask me all the time how I got hired onto the Office. Another common question is how do I manage to stay so down-to-earth in the face of such incredible success? ... A third frequently asked question is: "Girl, where you from? Trinidad? Guyana? Dominican Republic? You married? You got kids?" This is mostly asked by guys on the sidewalk selling I LOVE NEW YORK paraphernalia in New York City.
I grew up in a house where we danced all the time because we're Puerto Rican.
I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
I was born in St. Lucia on January 23, 1915. My parents, who were both school teachers, had immigrated there from Antigua about a dozen years before.
Like the Caribbean Windrush generation, my parents came to this country from the Commonwealth in the 1960s. They, too, came to help rebuild this country and offer all that they had.
Tribal designs are a part of my heritage. It boils down to the influences from my father, Viv Richards' side.
I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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.
I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.
Nobody can doubt Puerto Rico, sociologically, linguistically, culturally, and historically, is a nation. We have our own rich culture, thousand years of history, unique territory, and almost everyone's first language is Spanish, not English.
West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket.
Me and my mom are pretty cool. My mother's Caribbean, and she gets a little spicy, and I get a little spicy back.
