Jamaica Kincaid Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

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

  Jamaica Kincaid

  People, Slave, Good Things

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

• Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Here I Am, Giving, World

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

• Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Add, Noble, Yoke

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