"If I actually ran the world, I'd do……" — Jamaica Kincaid
"If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines."
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68 Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in…
- But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas…
- I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I…
- I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't…
- The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
- When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do…
- Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular,…
- The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they…
- There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.
- One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing…
- But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere.…
- 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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