Jamaica Kincaid Quotes - Page 7

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• A psychiatrist once asked me to draw a picture of my family. This is when I was a member of a family of four. I drew the three other people in the family first, bodies and heads. And then, last, I began to draw myself - but gave up.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  People, Firsts, Family First

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

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• The families of rabbits or woodchucks will eat the salad greens just before they are ready to be picked; I plot ways to kill these animals but can never bring myself to do it.

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  Animal, Rabbits, Plot

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• Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.

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  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Want

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. March 24, 2011.

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• Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that I'm just the same, but not enough to never do it again!

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Book, Looks, Enough

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

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• Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.

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  Night, Giving, Endurance

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• 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.

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  Writing, Thinking, Who I Am

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

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• There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But I want to acknowledge that with love and hate it's not simply one or the other. It's at least two, three, four, five different emotions existing at once, side by side, a broad spectrum of things alive.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Hate, Night, Opposites

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

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

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  Mystery, Born

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

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• It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.

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  Thinking, Dying, Looks

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

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• Something settiled inside me, something heavy and hard. It stayed there, and i could not think of one thing to make it go away. I thought, So this must be living, this must be the beginning of the time people later refer to as 'years ago, when I was young'.

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  Thinking, Years, People

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.24, Macmillan

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• If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.

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  Kitchen, World, Lines

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• 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.

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  Two, Height, Way

  Jamaica Kincaid (2002). “Lucy: A Novel”, p.18, Macmillan

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