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What I don't write is as important as what I write.
Jamaica Kincaid
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Jamaica Kincaid
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 25
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St John's
Elanie Potter Richardson
Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson
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I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.
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It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.
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I'm so used to being misunderstood.
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It is true that our skin is sort of more or less the same shade. But is it true that our skin color makes us a distinctive race? No.
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Race. I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both black and therefore deserve a certain kind of interaction with the world, they make race. I can't take them seriously.
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
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There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But I want to acknowledge that with love and hate it's not simply one or the other. It's at least two, three, four, five different emotions existing at once, side by side, a broad spectrum of things alive.
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Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.
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