Book Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid

9 Book quotes by Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid’s vivid voice comes through in these nine brief statements about books. Though limited in number, they convey her passionate engagement with reading and the cultural currents that shape her view.

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When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

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Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

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Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that…

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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read…

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The Holocaust happened in Europe, and that's important to how it is viewed. Had Europeans done such a thing in the far…

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I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the…

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I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying…

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I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten…

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Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I…

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The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college.…

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In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more…

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"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both…

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Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry."…

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in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled…

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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

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I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

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“Have you ever wondered to yourself why it is that all people like me seem to have learned from you is how to imprison…

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Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to…

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“Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.”

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I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like…

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A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

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The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.

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