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Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.

Jamaica Kincaid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Loved Princess Want Way

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

Good Beauty Power Rain Grief Me

I love my blackness... I love my queerness.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Love Blackness I Love

I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings.

Parents Immigrants Young London Over

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.

Great Man Old Man Comfortable Never

It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.

You Know Done Mean Director Him

The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.

Man Me Think You True Renaissance

I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I call it Sunday Funday.

Work Chill Sunday Try Out Little

When Sinead O'Connor tore up the picture of the Pope, you could hear a pin drop. I didn't know it was coming, obviously, because at dress, she had held up a picture of Balkan orphans, which I thought was really meaningful and what she wanted to do.

Dress Thought Picture You Know She

I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

Success Opportunities Think Enjoy

I get ideas about what's essential when packing my suitcase.

Diane von Furstenberg

Ideas Packing Get Essential Suitcase

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.

Donnie Wahlberg

Me Ending Surprise Go Matter

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

Music Voice Think White Rock Hear

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