All Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
- It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New… Children
- But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or… Bronte
- I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my… Always Writing
- I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden… Afterwards
- The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not. Appreciate
- When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by… Garden
- Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment you… Any
- The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing,… Always Wide
- There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much. Much
- One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the feelings I had… All
- But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to… Ability
- It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you. Beginning
- Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you. Answer
- A tourist is an ugly human being. Human
- I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race as almost everyone… Almost Everyone
- In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I… Deep
- There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity. Bravery
- He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first… Cool Love
- I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance. Antagonism
- A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be. All
- I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like… All
- All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think are… All
- America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn to it, the… America
- People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman. Angry
- Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will… Able
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