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In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?
Jamaica Kincaid
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Jamaica Kincaid
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 25
Novelist
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Elanie Potter Richardson
Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson
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What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.
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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've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying her life. There is something about this book that drives people mad with the autobiographical question.
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Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.
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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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It's too easy to say this or that is race, and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.
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A piece of cloth that is called linen has more validity than calling you and me black or negro. Cotton has more validity as cotton than yours and my being black.
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There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.
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For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided. This is the life I have. This is the life I write about.
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Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say Oh, she's so angry. If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes Oh, she's autobiographical.
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Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.
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I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear.
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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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...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.
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when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.
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I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write I just didn't know that it was possible.
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I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have something to write about, and you only have something to write about if you do something.
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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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The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.
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One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
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