Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again,...

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment fo...

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only ...

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

I liked that sentence then and I like that sentence now but then I had no way of making any sense of...

This way of behaving, this way of feeling, so hysterical, so sad, when someone has died, I don't lik...

I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I wer...

In a daydream I used to have, all these places were points of happiness to me; all these places were...

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I s...

Among the beliefs I held about the world was that being beautiful should not matter to a woman, beca...

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don't...

I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole str...

Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see...

I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its v...

Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as...

There is the Barclays Bank. The Barclay brothers are dead. The human beings they traded, the human b...

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like ...

I understood finding the place you are born in an unbearable prison and wanting something completely...

When I looked at them sitting around me, the church in the distance, beyond that our school, with th...

I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by ...

No one observed and beheld me, I observed and beheld myself; the invisible current went out and it c...

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in t...

...be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit; don't squat down to play marbles—you...

I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it ge...

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I...