In Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
I grew up in a middle-class family in Jamaica, I had no self-worth issues whatsoever. — John Barnes Copy Share Image
My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia. — Kaniehtiio Horn Copy Share Image
Jamaica is so musical, diverse and so extreme, from people singing in the streets to dancing. — Kreesha Turner Copy Share Image
My great grandfather came from Scotland to Brazil, George Gracie, from Dumfries. — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
When you're playing outside in Jamaica and you hear gunshots, you don't run and hide. You just look, and if it's nowhere… — Leon Edwards Copy Share Image
Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't… — Sarita Choudhury Copy Share Image
I grew up in a wealthy upper-class household in Jamaica, which was run along militaristic lines by my mother, Gloria. — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
My father is Croatian but went to school in Bosnia, and my mother's also Croatian but lived in Bosnia. — Ivan Rakitic Copy Share Image
I got family in the U.K. on my dad's side of the family. My grandfather's brother moved to the U.K. from Jamaica.… — Errol Spence Jr Copy Share Image
For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that — situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the… — Edward Seaga Copy Share Image
When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
I was born in Cuckfield, West Sussex, but then spent some time in the Bahamas, where my parents moved to join my… — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I actually had nuggets and mostly Asian food when I was at the Olympics. But as soon as I got back to… — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
Being a military child, we moved a lot and we developed different vernaculars from moving from the south, to the Midwest, and… — Joe Torry Copy Share Image
Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are… — Diplo Copy Share Image
So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
I grew up in Senegal but I was born in St. Louis. My mom and pop made sure we were all born… — Akon Copy Share Image
My parents, Santos and Lupe Padilla, immigrated separately from Mexico and met in Los Angeles in the late 1960s. It was love… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots. — Katharine Isabelle Copy Share Image
Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage. — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa,… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make… — Michael Manley Copy Share Image
Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it's crazy. — Sean Kingston Copy Share Image
When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music. — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
My family, we're indigenous people from San Luis Potosi in Central Mexico. My father moved to Detroit and brought all of us… — Sixto Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Today, Jamaica is known because of just one man - Usain Bolt. Not many Indians have managed to reach the finals of… — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
My uncle's the archbishop of Jamaica. It is a very Catholic family. There was no monkey business going on. — Michelle Buteau Copy Share Image
In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
As athletes, we sit and think, when international media or whoever make judgments or statements about Jamaica, 'Why aren't members of our… — Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Copy Share Image
Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not… — Tessanne Chin Copy Share Image
We need our children in Jamaica - especially those suffering with dyslexia, autism, cerebral palsy - to get more attention. — Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Copy Share Image
My mother was related to four of Jamaica's oldest families, and to say merely that she was out of the top drawer… — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
