Quote by Jamaica Kincaid Download Open image ““When I looked at them, they made up a sea.”” — Jamaica Kincaid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“because seas are like cats, he said, they always come home.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave… — Cristina García Copy Share Image
“We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?” — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
“The wind had its arms around them. The sea dandled them on its knee.” — Tom Robbins 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
