Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels.
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It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.
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The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.
