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I didn’t pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

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The Chinese, the African, and the European – they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.

As much as I like teaching and students, it’s a kind of rigor, a discipline, that’s against my body.

April 25, 2024

As much as I like teaching and students, it’s a kind of rigor, a discipline, that’s against my body.

April 25, 2024

The Chinese, the African, and the European – they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.

I didn’t pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

Derek Walcott

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The Chinese, the African, and the European – they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.

As much as I like teaching and students, it’s a kind of rigor, a discipline, that’s against my body.

As much as I like teaching and students, it’s a kind of rigor, a discipline, that’s against my body.

The Chinese, the African, and the European – they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.

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