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!
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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Follow the yellow brick road.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I think I need security.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do an opera, I feel like part of my job is to support that composer, to try and create something that allows the composer to do his or her best work. In movies, it's usually the director.
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I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
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I want all of the blue collar American working class people to know that I'm out there fighting for them.
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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I'm gonna love you like I've never been broken.
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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!
