Best Jamaica Quotes
66 Jamaica quotes by 42 unique authors
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Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and…
— Mos Def
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Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.
— Ziggy Marley
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I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either.
— Ziggy Marley
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As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able…
— Nicki Minaj
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Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1…
— David Oyelowo
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I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if…
— Harvey Weinstein
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Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even though Raphael had the right eyes…
— Francesca Lia Block
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I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique, dual…
— Peter Blair Henry
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Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.
— Peter Blair Henry
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Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.
— Damian Marley
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I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl.
— Portia Simpson-Miller
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The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica.
— Jimmy Cliff
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I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
— Ziggy Marley
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In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.
— Ziggy Marley
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My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain,…
— Sadie Jones
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In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was…
— Sadie Jones
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Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of his life here,…
— Martin Jacques
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Out of all the places in the world, Jamaica is my favorite place.
— Eve
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In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more…
— Damian Marley
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education…
— Damian Marley
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Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of…
— Tessanne Chin
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At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
— Yara Shahidi
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Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just…
— Diplo
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By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that…
— Sean Paul
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I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another,…
— Jamaica Kincaid
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