I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The strange thing about my life is that I came to America at about the time when racial attitudes were changing. This… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Observing any human being from infancy, seeing someone come into existence, like a new flower in bud, each petal first tightly furled… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“At the top of the page I wrote my full name [...] At the sight of it, many thoughts rushed through me,… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
That is how I came to think that heavy and hard was the beginning of living, real living; and though I might… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood… — 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 trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying… — 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
“There is a certain way that life ought to be, an ideal way, a perfect way, and there is the way that… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“But I seemed unable to do anything that pleased anyone and that included me, my own self, though at that time 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
