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Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

Jamaica Kincaid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Love Live Culture Grow America

Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

Thinking Soccer Mail Liberal Develop

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

Great Money Day Air Force Will Need

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

Good Movies Over Made Them

I view myself more as a traditionalist than a conservative. But I like the traditions, so I tend to try to keep them alive. But I'm open to any kind of political thought - I don't care - I have people that I don't agree with, and I have good friends I don't agree with, but for me personally, I'm more comfortable with the traditional stuff.

Good Myself People Me Thought Care

I think you should never be forced to be nice as an artist. An artist has to be uncomfortable in a way. Narcissistic and uncomfortable.

Luca Guadagnino

Think Uncomfortable You Artist Nice

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

Funny Me Race Human Human Race Who

My favorite fall meal has to be a simple roasted chicken. Ina Garten does a fabulous one. There is just something about roasting your own chicken and vegetables that screams 'fall' and 'home' to me.

Home Simple Me Fall Vegetables Meal

I started with capital of about $1,500, a princely sum for a student coming out of college, an amount I borrowed from my father.

Father College Student Out Coming

Humanity is about to face perhaps its greatest challenge ever, which is finding meaning in life after the end of 'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.'

Life Challenge Face End Meaning Eat

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hate Man Violence You Spirit Him

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

Family Humility Me Believe You

I think the narrative of people being caught between two cultures as immigrants is very harmful. It's exclusionary. It essentially tries to argue that some Americans are more real than others.

People Think Immigrants Others More

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