Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
Top 88 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.
When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.
All roads come to an end, and all ends are the same, trailing off into nothing; even an echo eventually will be silenced (Kincaid 215).
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
Yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.
I was afraid of the dead, as was everyone I knew. We were afraid of the dead because we never could tell when they might show up again.
None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.
What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.
I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.
What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.
That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.
I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance.
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.
I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.
I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.
No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.
Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives of men always are.
The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.
The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.
Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.
I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.
I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.
I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.
The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.
It's too easy to say this or that is "race," and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.
I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.
A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.
It is true that our skin is sort of more or less the same shade. But is it true that our skin color makes us a distinctive race? No.
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.