We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. – J. B. Priestley

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society. – Constance Baker Motley

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. – V. S. Naipaul