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The Lonely Londoners
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"The Lonely Londoners" Quotes

A group of Caribbean immigrants navigate life in 1950s London, yearning for belonging and finding solace in their shared experiences.

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Is just two kinds of West Indian: them who trying to pretend they still know where they come from, and them who trying to pretend they don't know where they come from.

Sam Selvon

But is too much to study, to concentrate, to even think, with them trains and buses chooking up the place.

Sam Selvon

Every man want somebody to love him. Well, I'm going to love you, Bredren. Like how nobody ain't love you before.

Sam Selvon

Is only in the movies we have happy ending, you know.

Sam Selvon

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying, you know.

Sam Selvon

You know what the trouble here is, with all of us: we are too frighten wild. Is the first thing people know about us, that we frighten mother-arse wild.

Sam Selvon

But lately I notice so much new thing happening that I guess the place change.

Sam Selvon

You know the fake stuff, like how they always tell you life is not like a storybook. And it is not, but it could be.

Sam Selvon

Her mother dead, her father dead, her husband dead, her brother dead. The man she loved dead, the yard she live in dead. Dead, dead, dead!

Sam Selvon

Is only the girls who coming. Every man beleaguered.

Sam Selvon