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Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

Jamaica Kincaid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality:
Birth: May 25, 1949

Topics

Sea Ocean Creative Me Place Island

I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.

Jessica Simpson

Me Feel Wedding Ring Being Married

I don't doll myself up for TV because I want people to accept me for who I am.

John Cena

Myself I Am People Me Want Accept

When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white upper-class school in conservative Mississippi. I was often very aware of how I presented myself.

Angie Thomas

Myself School College Black White

It's not an easy thing to manage - school and being in a band.

Soccer Mommy

School Easy Band Being Manage Thing

In 2010, aside from that niche of music that I have no interest in - Black Eyed Peas territory, disposable pop stuff - there's almost an incentive to go back to making music as adventurous and groundbreaking as you can, because nobody gets a big hit anymore.

Trent Reznor

Music Black You Back Nobody Go

I feel like I've been blessed.

Michael Mayer

Blessed Feel I Feel Like Been Like

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

Jonathan Ive

Good Think Long You Go Dwell

In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

Dinah Shore

Music Time Writing You Country New

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

Christopher Heyerdahl

Father Parents Gift Generation Kid

We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen.

Christa McAuliffe

You Down Said Now Realize Happen

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

Annalee Newitz

People American Young Never Nest

Compared with the rest of the Royal Family, Charles is a thoroughly Renaissance man, moved by beauty, music, and art in a way that largely passes his parents, his siblings, and his sons by.

Penny Junor

Family Beauty Music Art Man Parents