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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…

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Jamaica Kincaid has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small…
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or…
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always…
I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying…
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot…
Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at…
The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept…
There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.
One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the…
But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are…
It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find… — George Aiken
How do you say one actor is better than another actor? You can definitely say that in the Olympics if it's the… — Nicolas Cage
There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race. — Jean Rostand
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the… — Ruth Benedict
For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as… — Yves Klein
I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race… — Jamaica Kincaid
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. — Alphonse de Lamartine
No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist.… — Fred Korematsu
Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the… — Edward Thorndike
A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is… — Ayn Rand
All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity,… — Bell Hooks
But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that… — Mary Wollstonecraft

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