" It is often said that travel is the best education. These two trips, both
undertaken before I was eleven, had managed to teach me much about the
stupidity and fluidity of race, about how my own racial identity changed from
place to place and how the people in the hills and gullies of St Ann’s or the
islands of the Outer Hebrides can be more enlightened and welcoming than some
of us from the educated bright lights of the big cities. "
― Akala , Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire