Want Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid

10 Want quotes by Jamaica Kincaid

Kincaid’s reflections on longing are delivered in a few carefully chosen words. This brief selection offers a glimpse into her nuanced view of desire.

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I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

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I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us…

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I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear.

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What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

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I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a…

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I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

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When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.

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That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood…

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There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But…

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But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are…

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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…

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The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college.…

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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…

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"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…

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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."…

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in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled…

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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

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I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

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“Have you ever wondered to yourself why it is that all people like me seem to have learned from you is how to imprison…

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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…

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“Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.”

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I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like…

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A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

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The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.

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