Book Quote by Jamaica Kincaid

My family come from Antigua, my mother was born in Saint Kitts.

— Andi Oliver

I have a profound resistance to the idea that a reader could say, 'Oh, well, that's her story.' We should all be interested, no…

— Anne Michaels

My mother got the courage to speak to hundreds of people about her story. I knew if she could do it I could do…

— DeAndre Hopkins

I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the…

— Hope Edelman

I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use…

— Bill Bryson

She died when I was 16 and I just think no history books, nothing is ever going to talk about my grandmother. She was…

— Lee Isaac Chung

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

— Diane Keaton

My father was born and raised in Sierra Leone, and my mom was from Bermuda.

— Adina Porter

The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and how my…

— Barack Obama

“Mother Teresa diagnosed the world's ills in this way: we've just "forgotten that we belong to each other." Kinship is what happens to us…

— Greg Boyle

I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought there was no way she'd want…

— Rory Kennedy

My mum came to Britain from Clarendon, in the south of Jamaica, to make a better life for her family.

— Lenny Henry