Jamaica Kincaid Quotes - Page 3

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• The thing to remember about the Declaration of Independence and the profession of freedom is that it was written by people who were quite free and who were surrounded by people who were not free. The people who wrote the Declaration of Independence were ventriloquists really. The obsession with freedom makes no sense when it applies to them.

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  People, Independence, Remember

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

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  Mother, Shadow, Tunes

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “At the Bottom of the River”, p.54, Macmillan

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• What frustrates me is to see African-Americans behave as though what European-Americans say is worthwhile. It simply isn't. It's just some silly people who can make laws and have the power to enforce them. I'm often amazed at the conversations black people have about themselves. They ought to be having these conversations about white people. It's white people who are flawed and at fault.

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  Silly, People, Black

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• 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.

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  Bed, Pajamas, Sometimes

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

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  People, Slave, Good Things

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

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• Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.

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  Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm so used to being misunderstood.

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  Misunderstood, Used, Being Misunderstood

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• Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

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  People, Elements, Consciousness

  "Time Rules In Jamaica Kincaid's New Novel, 'See Now Then'". "All Things Considered" with Celeste Headlee, www.wamc.org. March 3, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Weed, Garden, Digging A Hole

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• I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

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  Culture, Outlaw, American Culture

  "Jamaica Kincaid on writing and 'outlaw American' culture". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.usatoday.com. March 7, 2013.

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• I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's what a house costs. And I was thinking, "How can it be?" And I was thinking, "What am I doing? Am I going to be Niall Ferguson, that horrible man?

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  Moving, Men, Thinking

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

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

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  Book, Writing, Finished

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

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• I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten and, although I didn't understand it, I loved the idea that this woman had written a book. I wanted to be her.

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  Children, Book, Ideas

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

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• Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?

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  Real, Exciting, Something Real

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.121, Macmillan

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• That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.

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  Heart, Feet, Lovely

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.23, Macmillan

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• I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.

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  Live Life, Home, Heart

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• The African-American is often used, and has conspired with the rest of America to be used, as a diversion from America's problems. I wish African-Americans would stop contributing to this sideshow. I also wish all African-Americans would cease to sing and dance just for a generation. I think we provide too much entertainment.

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  Thinking, Wish, Problem

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• In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?

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  Opportunity, Space, Silence

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• Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this.

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  Crush, Travel, Boredom

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.

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  Hatred, Complicated

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

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• Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look at flowers, I go look at the garden, I go look at a museum, but it's all coming back to writing.

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  Flower, Writing, Garden

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

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• I've never let the criticism deter me.

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  Criticism

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

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• I'm very aware that we make these decisions toward love or hate every day. I certainly don't have the stamina to live through each day making only the noblest decisions.

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  Hate, Decision, Stamina

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

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  Answers, Mystery, Who You Are

  Jamaica Kincaid (1996). “The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel”, p.138, Macmillan

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• In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

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  Garden, Enemy, Sculpture

  Jamaica Kincaid (2001). “My Garden (Book)”, p.96, Macmillan

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