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On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

What I don't write is as important as what I write. — Jamaica Kincaid

Of course, I now see that good behaviour is the proper posture of the weak, of children. — Jamaica Kincaid

I've never let the criticism deter me. — Jamaica Kincaid

People don't make changes because things are wonderful. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

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). — Jamaica Kincaid

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not. — Jamaica Kincaid

Yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present. — Jamaica Kincaid

When I looked at them, they made up a sea. — Jamaica Kincaid

Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life. — Jamaica Kincaid

There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity. — Jamaica Kincaid

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing. — Jamaica Kincaid

Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred. — Jamaica Kincaid

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you. — Jamaica Kincaid

None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth. — Jamaica Kincaid

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule. — Jamaica Kincaid

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture. — Jamaica Kincaid

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes. — Jamaica Kincaid

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear. — Jamaica Kincaid

I've never gotten used to winter and never will. — Jamaica Kincaid

My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me. — Jamaica Kincaid

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

My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal. — Jamaica Kincaid

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself? — Jamaica Kincaid

I'm so used to being misunderstood. — Jamaica Kincaid

Like father like son, like mother like daughter! — Jamaica Kincaid

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy. — Jamaica Kincaid

I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me. — Jamaica Kincaid

I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children were never a hindrance. — Jamaica Kincaid

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

A tourist is an ugly human being — Jamaica Kincaid

When people say you're charming you are in deep trouble. — Jamaica Kincaid

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

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! — Jamaica Kincaid

I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

I'm sometimes afraid I'll cross a line and it'll be difficult to come back, say, to dinner. — Jamaica Kincaid

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you. — Jamaica Kincaid

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea. — Jamaica Kincaid

By then I already knew that I wanted to have a powerful odor and would not care if it gave offense. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

When people say you're charming you're in deep trouble. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

I write out of defiance. — Jamaica Kincaid

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person. — Jamaica Kincaid

I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it. — Jamaica Kincaid

It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same. — Jamaica Kincaid

I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle. — Jamaica Kincaid

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail. — Jamaica Kincaid

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned. — Jamaica Kincaid

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance. — Jamaica Kincaid

The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write. — Jamaica Kincaid

Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it. — Jamaica Kincaid

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing. — Yara Shahidi

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people. — Jamaica Kincaid

This is how you bully a man; this is how an man bullies you. — Jamaica Kincaid

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance. — Jamaica Kincaid

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two. — Jamaica Kincaid

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess. — Jamaica Kincaid

I had one more thing to add to my expanding world. — Jamaica Kincaid

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person - you have just enough of too much. — Jamaica Kincaid

The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang. — Jamaica Kincaid

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable. — Jamaica Kincaid

When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know. — Jamaica Kincaid

I loved very much - and so used to torment until she cried - a girl named Sonia. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

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. — Jamaica Kincaid

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be. — Jamaica Kincaid

The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong. — Jamaica Kincaid

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope to support myself in it. — Jamaica Kincaid