I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“But no longer could I aks God what to do, since the answer, I was sure, would not suit me. I could… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college.… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
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… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
"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… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
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."… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Have you ever wondered to yourself why it is that all people like me seem to have learned from you is how to imprison… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
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… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.” — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
