"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
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
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
Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It's too easy to say this or that is "race," and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts… — 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
That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood… — 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
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
But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath… — 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
