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Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.

Jamaica Kincaid

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Woman Angry People Strong Black Say

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

Money Holidays You Career Copy Film

That luxury, ossified Los Angeles world isn't good for the soul.

Good Soul World Luxury Los Angeles

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

Eyes Green Questions Know Why Idle

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

John Philip Sousa

Music Childhood Desire Real Anything

They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

Think Die Trying Say Gravity Out

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Mary Ellen Mark

Think Thought Picture You Look More

Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past.

Michelle Trachtenberg

Heart Past Way Romance Yes Found

I teach a course called 'Committed Impulse,' and part of the work I do is to get people outside of their heads.

Work People Teach Outside Get Part

What I do is not curing cancer or rocket science or lead mining - anything tremendously difficult or world changing. I understand where I am in the cosmic order of things, and I'm OK with it.

Science I Am World Understand Rocket

Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control.

People Control Free Feel Healthy

I save all my problems for my mother.

Mother Problems Save

Models can be people, too. But the only way to do that is to kind of step up and keep doing new things that no one has thought of, from new websites to new blogs, a newscast, doing speeches, talking to kids. It kind of opens a new headline every time: 'Oh, a model hasn't done this before; a model hasn't done that before.'

Time New Things Step People Thought

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