John La Rose

John La Rose (27 December 1927 – 28 February 2006) was a political and cultural activist, poet, writer, publisher, and Chairman of the George Padmore Institute. He was originally from Trinidad but was involved in the struggle for political independence and cultural and social change in the Caribbean in the 1940s and 1950s and later in Britain, the rest of Europe and the Third World.

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    “Thou hast brought him a pardon from good King John.””
    —Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 108)

    “air or vacuum, snow or shale, squid or wolf, rose or lichen,
    each is accepted into as much light as it will take,”
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