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Chinese Woman
JAN LOWE SHINEBOURNE
"We were all like spiders, constantly weaving a web of racial intrigue around each other, even in the hospital among sick and dying. There was no escaping it. This was the society the British created for us to live in, a racist society."
"I did not know what love was but I told myself I loved her, and concluded love was a warm feeling of security, comfort, and satisfaction I felt in her home, in the presence of her family when the air was full of the scent of cakes baking in the oven, and Chinese food being cooked in the kitchen"
JAN LOWE SHINEBOURNE
"To grow up in British Guiana was to learn all the codes of racial snobbery and prejudice that surrounded our differences of appearance and culture."
JAN LOWE SHINEBOURNE
" I did not know my limits. I was a little god, a spoilt boy in a family of mainly girls, treated like a prince by my doting mother, who called me Sonny to show her pride in having a son"
JAN LOWE SHINEBOURNE
"Her husband looked big and strong and extrovert in his self-assurance, like all white overseers. They liked to swagger and impress their authority on you, to let you know you were their master."