Caribbean Lifestyle Quotes

I'm from the Caribbean, and I love the dance hall sound.

I'll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.

You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.

My immediate family are from the West Indies - from Trinidad and Grenada - and I have relatives all over the Caribbean.

As soon as I heard 'Calypso,' I loved it.

There was a time when I wanted to get out of the Western world. I went down to Grenada and looked at a place, and I realised that if I lived in a Grenadian manner I'd be nothing but a blah. I'm going to need constant bodyguarding, guns and money to join the community there. Otherwise you just got a bunch of fat, old white people dying together, overeating, drinking. Not very attractive.

Whether it evokes pleasant memories of holidays in the Caribbean, or best-forgotten outings to Notting Hill, most of us have experienced jerk chicken in one form or another.

I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.

I grew up in a wealthy upper-class household in Jamaica, which was run along militaristic lines by my mother, Gloria.

The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

Mexicans work so hard. Jamaicans are like, 'Hey mon. Take it easy. You work too 'ard.' Sneak into the country Sunday night, working Monday morning.

The true Caribbean people… we are carnival people, we are vibrant people, not dead people. We like to be heard and we like to have fun.

My father is from the West Indies, the St. Thomas Virgin Islands.