Quotes by : Jamaica Kincaid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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