Quote by Jamaica Kincaid Download Open image ““For some people, a fixed state of irritation is oxygen. I understand this all too well.”” — Jamaica Kincaid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Most people were already living inside their own irritation.” — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
“Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.” — Dawn French Copy Share Image
“But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.” — Zilpha Keatley Snyder Copy Share Image
“You act like I need you to survive but I don’t I have plenty of oxygen, thanks” — Emily Curtis Copy Share Image
“I can barely breathe but I think that his lips might be better than oxygen at the moment.” — Autumn Doughton Copy Share Image
“When there’s nothing else you can do, breathe slower. There’s no way it can hurt, and it might help.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“We're always on breath away from something--living or dying--, sometimes it just can't be helped.” — Heather Gudenkauf Copy Share Image
I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college.… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry."… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Have you ever wondered to yourself why it is that all people like me seem to have learned from you is how to imprison… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.” — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
