I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot… — 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
I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
You know how they say a man's house is his castle? I think for a woman, it's her body. I feel so… — 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
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
Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I like to be depressing. I feel it's my duty to make everyone a little less happy. You know that line in… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The African-American is often used, and has conspired with the rest of America to be used, as a diversion from America's problems.… — 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
I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's… — 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
All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to… — 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
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
None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth. — 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
