Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

Jamaica Kincaid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RacismMeSocietyPossibleSeeUp

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

Andreas Gursky

I AmEnvironmentNeverHumanSpecies

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

Jef I. Richards

ArtCreativeAdvertisingStrategy

Mike Webster lost all his money or, maybe, gave it away. He forgot. A lot of lawsuits. Mike Webster forgot how to eat, too. Soon, Mike Webster was homeless, living in a truck, one of its windows replaced with a garbage bag and tape.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

MoneyHomelessTruckBagLivingEat

There is a reason that many African Americans have a healthy mistrust for law enforcement. We don't always feel protected or served by that particular institution.

Sterling K. Brown

LawLaw EnforcementFeelHealthy

Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one's life - or the possibility of withdrawing, shutting oneself up, denying and stultifying one's growth.

Rollo May

LifeGrowthFreedomDevelopmentUp

Early on, I joined that large group of show business cadets who were 'multi-hyphenates,' 'independents,' 'self produced' or 'alternately financed.' Sometimes, most times, I've had to do it all: raise the money, write the script, produce, direct and act in the film.

Mike Binder

BusinessMoneySelfEarlySometimes

Just the fact that I'm in the game is great. I'm just blessed to be working. I got a plan, but I'm humble and I try to be humble.

Mike Epps

GreatHumbleBlessedGamePlanTry

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

Michael Ondaatje

RelationshipMindBookPatientOnly

The longer it takes to respond to a major development or crisis, the higher the chance of violence being seen as the only answer.

Miroslav Lajcak

ChanceViolenceCrisisDevelopment

If you live in a yard sale kind of neighborhood - in good weather, most neighborhoods are crawling with them on weekends - do a sweep to see what the competition is charging. No one is going to buy your $7 book if they can get it down the block for $1.

Jean Chatzky

GoodLiveCompetitionWeatherBook

When Dad died in 1998, it really hit my confidence - he'd helped me write and he thought I was really funny, but since he'd died I didn't feel right. And it felt like no one but me even remembered him.

Dolly Wells

FunnyConfidenceMeThoughtFeel

I started thinking about this truck and why do I still have this same truck? After all of these years, why am I holding on to that? I just starting thinking about other things: guitars, boots and jeans. I just had a tendency to hold on to the things that have meaning to me.

Dierks Bentley

MeTruckThinkingBootsMeaningWhy

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