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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They are not trying to hurt you.

  Michael Manley

  Hurt, Thinking, Fire

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• The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Islands, Perfect, World

  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.129, Feminist Press at CUNY

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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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• Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Easy

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• The rest of the Third World people are seeing, that the country can make a real change. No changing or trading one master for another. The only real change would be to socialize the means of production and this is what's happening in Jamaica.

  Huey Newton

  Country, Real, Mean

  Source: www.afro.com

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• There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk politics. The literacy rate is very low. Everyone is so interested in politics, more than those who can read in the United States.

  Huey Newton

  Strong, Years, United States

  Source: www.afro.com

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• 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

  Crazy, Miami, Kind

  Source: djbooth.net

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