Quote by Velma Pollard: “The journey began before we knew its name.”

This suggests that significant life changes and movements, especially migration or personal evolution, often start subconsciously, before we fully understand their magnitude or purpose. It's a journey predestined.

The early 1990s marked a time when Caribbean literature increasingly grappled with the complex forces that led to migration and the formation of diasporic identities, often predating conscious decisions to leave. This quote reflects the larger historical currents shaping individual lives.

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.