Let us not spend too much time in cursing the darkness; let us not spend so much time in thinking of how good things were when they were what they were; and for God sakes let us disabuse our mind that there are some wicked white people somewhere that did us a bad thing and therefore we must spend the rest of our existence pursuing some restitution," Golding argued. "The world is yawning whenever we talk that sort of rubbish; we better get going and we better start looking at that stall and see to what extent we can build that little stall that we have."