“His mother had been the daughter of a minor chief, and she had carefully instilled in Ansige an understanding of the importance of importance.”

—  Karen Lord

Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 1 “Ansige is Delayed on the Road to Makendha” (p. 8)

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Barbadian novelist and sociologist of religion 1968

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