I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.
Derek WalcottRead
I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Derek Walcott emphasizes the importance of fairness and justice in education to promote effective communication among the youth.
In this quote, Derek Walcott highlights the role of education as a tool for fostering justice and fairness in society. By promoting articulacy among the young, he suggests that education can empower individuals to express themselves clearly and advocate for their rights, ultimately contributing to a more equitable and just community.
Themes
EducationArticulacyFairnessJusticeYouth
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be shared at an education conference to emphasize the importance of teaching fairness in schools.
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All quotes βCreating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next.
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A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.
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When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.
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The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.
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