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Derek Walcott: Either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation

I'm just a red nigger who love the sea
I had a sound colonial education
I have Dutch, nigger and English in me
and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.          

            --Derek Walcott (1930-) in The Schooner Boy

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02 May 2005 in Books, literature, writing, language, Caribbean, Dutch, English, Nations, peoples |

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