Jamaica Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Issues, Race, Skins

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Joey Badass

  Islands, Dancing, Culture

  Source: gothamist.com

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• If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hurt, Hero, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.774, Modern Library

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• I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.

  Lauryn Hill

  Six Months, Stillness, Months

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• Come back, come back, back to Jamaica
  Don't you know we made a big mistaika
  We would be so sad if you told us goodbye
  And we promise not to shoot you out of the sky!

  Jimmy Buffett

  Goodbye, Sky, Promise

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• Jamaica is just one of those places that has so many stimulating factors in everyday existence. It definitely feeds me, my creativity and my soul in so many ways.

  Kreesha Turner

  Creativity, Soul, Everyday

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

  Peter Blair Henry

  People, Far Away

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

  Ziggy Marley

  Culture, Coconuts, Flavor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Yams, Long, Giving

  Song: Temperature, Album: The Trinity, 2005

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• Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.

  Chris Blackwell

  Coffee, World, Sugar

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

  Usain Bolt

  I Can

  "Local heroes: Usain Bolt". Interview with Rio Ferdinand, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.

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• Politics is tricky, especially in Jamaica. There are two parties, Jamaica Labour Party and People's National Party, and if I went for one, I would upset supporters of the other. I stay as far from politics as I can.

  Usain Bolt

  Party, Two, People

  "Usain Bolt talks secret post-season parties, fame and the fear of losing". Interview with Alastair Campbell, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. August 15, 2016.

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• Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Jealousy, Reality

  Song: Wake Up And Live, Album: Survival, 1979

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• Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.

  Mos Def

  Reflection, Two, Hip Hop

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• Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  "Get Up, Stand Up" (song) (1973).

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• My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.

  David Ortiz

  August, Littles, Timing

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• What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Struggle, Rasta

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• So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Generations, Culture, Looks

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.125, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Yesterday President Obama traveled to Jamaica, where he will meet with students and Caribbean leaders. Jamaica's such a beautiful place, Obama says he can't wait to just take it all in, hold it for several seconds, and then exhale.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Beautiful, Yesterday, Leader

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• 'Yo I'm from Africa' Boy you're just a faker. Name one city: 'Uhh, Jamaica!' Wrong! And I think that's a shame, An African look with an American name.

  King Sun

  Rap, Boys, Thinking

  Song: Be Black

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• Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.

  Mark McMorris

  Art, Ideas, Rights

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able to inspire young black girls everywhere, to go into Macy's or Nordstrom's and see their face staring back at them - I wouldn't believe them.

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Queens, Growing Up

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• The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Successful, Commercial Banks, Building

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• Everybody thought that Titanic was the most romantic movie ever. A story about two teenagers who knew each other for three days. Try to make that movie with a couple that's been together for a few years. 'Get in the goddamn boat, Rose!' 'I don't wanna get in the boat!' 'Get in, come on, I'm freezing my ass off out here! I wanted to go to Jamaica, but no, we had to go on a cruise in the middle of the winter!' 'You never draw me naked anymore'

  Greg Giraldo

  Couple, Teenager, Winter

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• Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.

  Damian Marley

  Technology, Impact, Independence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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