Jamaica's Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Jamaica's

Jamaica's Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

My timing's a little off. But I'm about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August. — David Ortiz

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

I see the calm and hear the calm and know the calm can't last. Not for me, not for him, not for Kingston, not for Jamaica. For — Marlon James

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

In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty — Bob Marley

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems. — Ziggy Marley

I think Jamaica would thrive if we promote agriculture as a way to bring people here. — Chris Blackwell

I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Gould's wife when I was researching 'The Moor,' and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor. — Laurie R. King

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 music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica. — Jimmy Cliff

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

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

I'm intent on marketing Jamaica. Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world. — Chris Blackwell

We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom. — Marlon James

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

In Jamaica, you learn as a child how to roll a joint. Everyone here has tried it. I did too — Usain Bolt

I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this. — Yohan Blake

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

My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good. — Usain Bolt

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

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

I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while. — Usain Bolt

I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums. — Matthew Morrison

Jamaica never gets worse or better, it just finds new ways to stay the same. — Marlon James

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

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes. — 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 would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life. — Jamaica Kincaid

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

Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica. — Damian Marley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star. — Maureen O'Hara

In the Caribbean islands, especially in Jamaica, have I found a country similar to South Africa plus the racial freedom I had sought so long. — Peter Abrahams

Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica. — Idris Elba

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

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two. — 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 went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness. — Lauryn Hill

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

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

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still. — Ziggy Marley

Jamaica is kind of similar to Miami, but to go from there to Miami, and then Miami to L.A., it's crazy. — Sean Kingston

In Jamaica, the music is recorded for the sound system, not the iPod. It's about experiencing music together, with other people. — Michael Franti

The truth is ladies ... Good men are an endangered specie. So if you have a good man dont shuffle your KING for a JOKER. — Crystal Evans

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

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture. — Ziggy Marley

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

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

Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture. — Joey Badass

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

CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG ... NAW EAT NO YAM ... NO STEAM FISH ... NOR NO GREEN BANANA
BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA.. — Sean Paul

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

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin. — Tessanne Chin

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

The 70's was a great time for artistic expression in Jamaica and I was in the heart of it, unconsciously soaking it up and paving my future. — Michael Hyatt

We knew Down South. Everyone had one. Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico. — Jacqueline Woodson

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

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

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

I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' positive songs. That's what the world needs. — Jenny Lewis

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either. — Ziggy Marley

Out of all the places in the world, Jamaica is my favorite place. — Eve

I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl. — Portia Simpson-Miller

If a guy loves you, he'll buy you fucking Jamaica and walk away. He won't hold that shit over you — Dannika Dark

I was just a kid growing up in Jamaica with dreams, and I want people to know that it's possible to dream bigger and accomplish those dreams. — Kamilah Taylor

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