Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.” — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a… — 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
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.… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the… — 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
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
A psychiatrist once asked me to draw a picture of my family. This is when I was a member of a family… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The thing to remember about the Declaration of Independence and the profession of freedom is that it was written by people who… — 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… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The photograph of my brother that is in this album shows a young man, beautiful and perfect in the way of young… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Something settiled inside me, something heavy and hard. It stayed there, and i could not think of one thing to make it… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the… — 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
Had the Holocaust happened in Tahiti or the Congo, as it has; had it happened in South America, as it has; had… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Another thing I like to say to my students is this: "How many Corinthians read Paul's letters?" The answer is none. They… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn… — 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
I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a… — 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 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
This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it… — 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
What frustrates me is to see African-Americans behave as though what European-Americans say is worthwhile. It simply isn't. It's just some silly… — 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
