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
What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false,… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.” — 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
I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family… — 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
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
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
Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The families of rabbits or woodchucks will eat the salad greens just before they are ready to be picked; I plot ways… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting… — 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
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
in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew… — 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
