Quotes by : Jamaica Kincaid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....