C. L. R. James

Quotes

• “He was ennobled and crippled by cricket; he reached beyond his boundary but would always have a blind spot.”

• “Respectability was not an ideal, it was an armour.”

• “Youth though he was, he put the length ball through the covers off his back foot in a manner that made me wonder at the injustice which allows one person to do without effort what others sweat in vain to achieve.”

• “Cricket is an art, not a bastard or a poor relation, but a full member of the community.”

• “For two centuries the higher civilization had shown them that power was used for wreaking your will on those whom you controlled.”