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Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

It’s very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it’s interpreted in some way Picture Quote #1

A tourist is an ugly human being Picture Quote #1

My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me Picture Quote #1

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself? Picture Quote #1

Like father like son, like mother like daughter! Picture Quote #1

I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it Picture Quote #1

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What I don’t write is as important as what I write Picture Quote #1

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable Picture Quote #1

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you Picture Quote #1

There’s a difference between bravery and rash stupidity Picture Quote #1

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be Picture Quote #1

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes Picture Quote #1

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I’ve never gotten used to winter and never will Picture Quote #1

People don’t make changes because things are wonderful Picture Quote #1

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people Picture Quote #1

Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it Picture Quote #1

On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death Picture Quote #1

I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... Where I grew up I was the same race as almost everyone else... It is true that I noticed things that no one else seemed to notice. and I think only people who are outsiders do this Picture Quote #1

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Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this Picture Quote #1

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery Picture Quote #1

In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition Picture Quote #1

I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence Picture Quote #1

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That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him Picture Quote #1

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds Picture Quote #1

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through Picture Quote #1

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them Picture Quote #1

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love Picture Quote #1

... yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present Picture Quote #1

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It’s very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it’s interpreted in some way. (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) A tourist is an ugly human being (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself? (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) Like father like son, like mother like daughter! (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) What I don’t write is as important as what I write (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) There’s a difference between bravery and rash stupidity (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) I’ve never gotten used to winter and never will (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) People don’t make changes because things are wonderful (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... Where I grew up I was the same race as almost everyone else... It is true that I noticed things that no one else seemed to notice. and I think only people who are outsiders do this (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) Every native of every place is a potential tourist, and every tourist is a native of somewhere. Every native everywhere lives a life of overwhelming and crushing banality and boredom and desperation and depression, and every deed, good and bad, is an attempt to forget this (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory? (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) 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 (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes) ... yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present (Jamaica Kincaid Quotes)

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