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There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.
Jamaica Kincaid
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Jamaica Kincaid
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 25
Novelist
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St John's
Elanie Potter Richardson
Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson
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An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.
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if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.
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I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another outside false, inside true.
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Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.
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I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.
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Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it's because I'm thinking of writing. I go look at flowers, I go look at the garden, I go look at a museum, but it's all coming back to writing.
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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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I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
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