Jamaica Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.

  Debi Mazar

  Queens, Fun, Grandma

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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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• 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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• 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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• To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Class, White, Giving

  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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• 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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• '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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• 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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• In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

  Ziggy Marley

  Kids, Years, Suffering

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

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• Politicians need to stop the violence because it has become a way of life in Jamaica. It's the thing to do - be violent in Jamaica.

  Damian Marley

  Way, Violence, Needs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Easy

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• When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

  Michael Franti

  Tourists, Bob, Marley

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• I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.

  Laurie R. King

  Wife, Bedroom, Moors

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• For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that - situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the world's richest economy - Jamaica has no reason to be poor.

  Edward Seaga

  Two, World, Reason

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• I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.

  Ziggy Marley

  Running, Cities, Concrete

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

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• I believe that many lives around us now can reflect this strange pattern of migration and movement. The question is: are we aware of it, and do we embrace it as a kind of birthright? I do. And yet, I feel deeply connected to at least two homespaces - Jamaica and Ghana, and more recently, South Carolina.

  Kwame Dawes

  Believe, Ghana, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.

  Grace Jones

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hymns

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• I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.

  Yohan Blake

  Champion, Olympics

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• Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.

  David Oyelowo

  Drama, Thinking, Islands

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• I wouldn't have become an engineer, I wouldn't have done what I did, had a hand not been held out to me. I have to remember who helped me when I needed help. The people of Jamaica helped me. I can't forget that. I would be ungrateful if I forgot.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Ungrateful People, Hands, Would Be

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• At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

  Yara

  Dinner, Professors, Harvard

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• I started DJing soundclashes. I used to go to Jamaica a lot. I was like a hip-hop sound boy, where I took the dancehall culture and mixed it up with the hip-hop as well. I kept going, going, and I got real hot in the streets of Miami - you know, doing pirate radio - then ended up doing 99 Jamz, the big station out there.

  DJ Khaled

  Real, Boys, Hip Hop

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• Countries like Jamaica do not have a random program, so they can go months without being tested. I'm not saying anyone is on anything, but everyone needs to be on a level playing field.

  Carl Lewis

  Country, Needs, Level Playing Field

  "Carl Lewis speaks out on Bolt, U.S. performance in Beijing, more". Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. September 11, 2008.

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• My family were from Jamaica.

  Diane Abbott

  My Family

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