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I want to have a family.Collection: Derek
I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower.Collection: Derek
If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.Collection: Derek
Everyone fears rejection.Collection: Derek
I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.Collection: Derek
We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.Collection: Derek
Through time you learn from your experiences. I think I've learned to deal with people a little bit better over time. That in particular has developed a little bit.Collection: Derek
The number one priority is playing baseball. There are so many people in New York trying to get you to do this and get you to do that, which is fine, but you have to take care of yourself.Collection: Derek
I can see how people work out to feel better.Collection: Derek
I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear.Collection: Derek
I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.Collection: Derek
I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention now then there ever was. You walk down the street with someone and it's a story. It becomes national news, you know what I mean? So, I still do things, but I stay home a lot more.Collection: Derek
You gotta have fun.Collection: Derek
I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.Collection: Derek
You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.Collection: Derek
I get asked enough questions, I try not to ask too many questions.Collection: Derek
I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.Collection: Derek
Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.Collection: Derek
There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.Collection: Derek
I've always been uncomfortable, so to speak, when the focus is on me.Collection: Derek
What was moving, I think, was the fact that the statue is a woman and not a heroic, manly figure. So for all her scale and immensity, there's something soft about the Statue of Liberty, something tender about her.Collection: Derek
I think, at the heart of the idea of American democracy, there is something tender.Collection: Derek
Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They're based on the central figure, and things happen to that person, and they're called tragedy because they're extremely sad. But tragedy always has a glorious thing happen at the end of it. That's what the catharsis is.Collection: Derek
There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.Collection: Derek
I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.Collection: Derek
I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand?Collection: Derek
A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.Collection: Derek
The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.Collection: Derek
There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.Collection: Derek
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.Collection: Derek
Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it isn't that they mutter and criticize; it is that the poet does not accept the situation called the 'perfect' condition of man - in other words, perfect in the materialistic sense.Collection: Derek
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?Collection: Derek
My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.Collection: Derek
When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature and the landscape. I have great affection for Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin, but there's still this distance: looking on at what I'm admiring, separate from what I am. And that's OK.Collection: Derek
The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.Collection: Derek
I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.Collection: Derek
I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry.Collection: Derek
I feel blessed that I was gifted.Collection: Derek
You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.Collection: Derek
When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.Collection: Derek
I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it.Collection: Derek
My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.Collection: Derek
I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem - is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can't act a myth.Collection: Derek
My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in race.Collection: Derek
What is taught in schools generally in the West Indies is that if something is your thing, it's better than anybody else's because it's yours. It's extremely provincial and also damaging. You prevent people from learning things. The biggest absurdity would be, 'Don't read Shakespeare because he was white.'Collection: Derek
Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful.Collection: Derek
What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent experience in a younger writer.Collection: Derek
I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.Collection: Derek
What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines, disciplining one's feelings.Collection: Derek