Quote by Velma Pollard: “The blood knows its way home.”

This quote speaks to the deep, intuitive connection people feel to their origins, even across vast distances. It suggests an inherent pull, like an ancestral memory guiding them back to where they truly belong or feel rooted.

The early 1990s saw a growing recognition of post-colonial identities and the enduring ties to ancestral lands for people of the Caribbean diaspora. Pollard's work often explores the psychological and emotional landscapes of migration and return, rooted in personal and collective memory.

Jamaican poet, novelist, and scholar whose work explores Caribbean women's lives, language, and spiritual experience. Her fiction and poetry draw on Jamaican oral traditions and Rastafarian thought to articulate a distinctly Caribbean feminist voice.