Jamaicans Quotes

• I would like to work with anyone in the business who wants to give respect back to the Jamaican vibe.

  Sean Paul

  Giving, Want

  "Reasoning With Sean Pau". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. October 1, 2002.

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• On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Average, Chinese, Different

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• There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stories, Literature, Comedy

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• Overcome the devils with a thing called love.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Song

  Bob Marley (2012). “The Future Is the Beginning: The Words and Wisdom of Bob Marley”, p.67, Crown Archetype

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• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

  Marcus Garvey

  Confidence, Race, Self

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Writing, Poetry, Political

  "I did my own thing". Interview With Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2008.

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• The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• love the life you live. live the life you love.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• My favorite herb - lamb's bread. Kali. I like Hawaiian. But for some reason, you communicate better with Jamaican herb. The best Jamaican herb, it have more energy, more everything to it.

  Bob Marley

  Energy, Lambs, Kali

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• When you think about the passion that's involved wth Jamaican culture, it's like, they're not sitting around waiting for things to get all pretty: they want it raw and dutty.

  Kreesha Turner

  Passion, Thinking, Waiting

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• Now every girl is expected to have: Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.

  Tina Fey

  Girl, Sarcastic, Athlete

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Music, Wisdom

  Bob Marley (1982*). “Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics”

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• One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

  Bob Marley

  Funny, Music, Wisdom

  Song: Trenchtown Rock

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• Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  America, Choices, Black

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.242, Anchor

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• ...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

  Steve Martin

  Men, Scarves, Shells

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• My two Jamaican cousins ... were studying engineering. 'That's where the money is,' Mom advised. ... I was to be an engineering major, despite my allergy to science and math. ... Those who preceded me at CCNY include the polio vaccine discoverer, Dr. Jonas Salk ... and eight Nobel Prize winners. ... In class, I stumbled through math, fumbled through physics, and did reasonably well in, and even enjoyed, geology. All I ever looked forward to was ROTC.
  Autobiographical comments on his original reason for going to the City College of New York, where he shortly turned to his military career.

  Colin Powell

  Mom, Cousin, New York

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• My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

  Sean Paul

  Hip Hop, Flow, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Voice, Resistance, Spirit

  "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com.

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• My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

  Lianne La Havas

  Dad, Grandparent, Childhood

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• I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

  Grace Jones

  Growing Up, Jamaican Music, Backgrounds

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• Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I'm pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Party, Land, Two

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• I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

  Grace Jones

  Girl, School, Black

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• Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

  Elvis Costello

  Ridiculous, Should, Accents

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• Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

  Marcus Garvey

  Memorial Day, People, Suffering

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

  Audra McDonald

  Southern, Typical, Sound

  "Audra McDonald: Shaping 'Bess' On Broadway". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 15, 2012.

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