I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She… — 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
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
Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“The word 'slut' (in patois) was repeated over and over, until suddenly I felt as if I were drowning in a well… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Lucy, a girl's name for Lucifer. That my mother would have found me devil-like did not surprise me, for I often thought… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Bad sex. I wondered what exactly did she mean. From my mother I had gathered that the experience could leave you feeling… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“I had never imagined my father dying. I had never inagined my parents dying. When I told Mariah this, she said that… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Looking at the horizon again, I saw a lone figure coming toward me, but I wasn't frightened because I was sure it… — 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
