Black-writers Quote by Jamaica Kincaid

“I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made…

— Jane Devin

“It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured.”

— Max Brooks

“I don't enjoy the company of a person with whom I cannot be myself…”

— Gaurav Sharma

“I was my own person, complete in and of myself.”

— Meg North

“I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time…

— Ralph Ellison

“And he reflected that one cannot completely become his own self until one is completely among others.”

— Milan Kundera

“To the uninitiated they have merely murmured, with a pitying smile and a wave of the hand: What! are you still troubled by that?…

— George Santayana

“The storied self knows that self is not enough.”

— Richard Kearney

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with…

— Joshua Slocum

“You define your existence, not the other way around.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“One thing I'll have to face about myself, I suppose, is that while I've always loved mankind in general, I have been less than…

— David Williamson

“It is only your capacity for wickedness that makes selflessness possible.”

— Danielle Paige, Dorothy Must Die