"I would be lost without the feeling of……" — Jamaica Kincaid
"I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance."
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Jamaica Kincaid
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68 Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid has 68 quotes on this site.
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It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in…
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But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas…
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I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I…
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I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't…
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The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
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When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do…
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Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular,…
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The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they…
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There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.
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One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing…
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But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere.…
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It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.
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More Antagonism Quotes
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The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to…
— Jean Baudrillard
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A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to…
— Grace Paley
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War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is…
— Charles Tupper
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In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation…
— Karl Marx
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In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which…
— Karl Marx
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