We've cut too much sugar cane, we've picked too much cotton, we've died too young, ... Don't give up now. It's dark, I know. But morning is coming.

There are so many commodities in the affected areas, like rice, cotton, sugar cane, cattle and chickens, ... Many grains that are stored can't handle the heat and humidity.

We're going to start growing sugar cane over there.

You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.