I suspect my own journey to Brexit has closely followed that of Britain's. I had doubts, then I decided we should stay in, then I had very serious doubts as our island began to sink under a tide of regulations and our government lost control of the immigration system.
I am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.
When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.
You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be prickly about the name: it's either Shetland or the Shetland Islands.
We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.
I think anything I do will have an island feel, but I don't want it to be just that; I don't want to be put in a box.
Puerto Rico's relationship with music is everything. It's an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.
I'm an Islander. I appreciate the ownership and the fans and the players, the trainers, coaches, all the people that were involved and the success that we had together.
The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant about 4,000 miles, nor are their people of the same race. The natives are not cannibals, and it is doubtful if they ever were so. Their idols only exist in missionary museums.
We're the most talented musical island ever.
What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don’t know about [their status].
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.
When you're from the islands, that's that pride.
When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
