Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction where I have made something up and have to apologize to the bullying hostess of a talk show.

Jamaica Kincaid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MomentBullyingTrueWillTalkUp

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

Maya Lin

WarLostIndividualModernApproach

I work with a bunch of producers on every album, but the difference for 'Evolver' was that I couldn't get any time with Kanye. I forget what he was doing at the time, but he was all over the place. We were never at the same city at the same time.

John Legend

WorkTimeCityDoingPlaceForget

I'll be ready. I'm ready right now.

Jeff Garcia

ReadyNowRight

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

John Zorn

MusicTogetherSoloUpImprovisation

The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around.

Simon Rattle

BetterWayOrchestraHarderConduct

I'm not a hater. I've expressed this before.

Tory Lanez

BeforeHaterExpressed

I've actually done a really good job listening to my body, relaxing. Some days you train hard, some days you rest a little bit.

Robbie Lawler

GoodJobListeningRestYouBody

When you get to a certain point in your career, it's easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you're not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.

Jay DeMarcus

YourselfEasyYouCareerPhoneStop

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

Clarence Thomas

PeopleBlackWrongWayUpMyths

I have to shave every day. If I don't, it's sort of like going to bed without brushing your teeth for me - but I'm a crazy person so maybe that's why.

Brittany Snow

DayMeCrazyEvery DayPersonWhy

I have lost and put on big batches of weight in my life many, many times. But what concerns me is the idea of being an obese old woman, because I don't like the idea of being physically incapable in someone else's hands.

Alison Moyet

LifeWomanMeMy LifeSomeoneHands

I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

Peter Gabriel

WritingSongRoadThinkLearnYou

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