Quotes by : Jamaica Kincaid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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