“If you chop that branch, it’s filled with water that the Maroons would drink…This is why, when we cut a tree, we plant another one to replace it.”
Lloyd Wilks (loyd wilks), Jamaica's consul general at Toronto
“We make drums the same way our ancestors did 200-300 years ago. We play the same rhythms, the same songs that record the history of our ancestors.”
Wallace Sterling (wahl-lass stir-ling), Colonel Maroon Council
“Fight in the morning, fight in the day and fight in the night. There ain’t no giving in. In true maroon determination, doggedness and defiance, we will win.”
Nichole McIntosh (neh-kole mak-in-tosh), nurse, poet, blogger
“Africans who refused to be enslaved said, "Oh no. We insist to have the right to practice our African centered way of life as we see fit and we do not need a slave master over us.”
Nana Farika Berhane (fah-rick-ah beh-hahn), author and poet