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People Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.
- 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…
- People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.
- I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.
- People don't make changes because things are wonderful.
- Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.
- Something settiled inside me, something heavy and hard. It stayed there, and i could not think of one thing to make it go away. I…
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