Defiance Quote by Jamaica Kincaid Download Open image “I write out of defiance.” — Jamaica Kincaid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defiance Writing
I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another. — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph. — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it,… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
“To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write. I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow… — Deena Metzger 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
One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I am going to grab the nearest… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
As one, they leap, laughing, and that is where we leave them - mouths open, arms spread wide, fingers splayed to take in the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense. — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
“Dare to dream, for in the daring there is defiance to live beyond your circumstances” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope… — C.J. Redwine Copy Share Image
“When Dr. James Young Simpson sought to apply anesthesia to a woman in childbirth, the clergymen of his day foamed at the mouth and… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
Defiance rose up like vomit. I swung back and yelled, "Don't ever do that again! — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
