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,… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be. — 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
The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I'm very aware that we make these decisions toward love or hate every day. I certainly don't have the stamina to live… — 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
I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her;… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear… — 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
There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always… — 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
