“Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.”– V. S. Naipaul Related Quotes “I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn’t have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.”– Charles Kuralt “Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.”– Zachary Quinto “One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn’t work on this mirror principle, you don’t have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn’t work that way.”– Thomas Frank