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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
Playwright
University Teacher
Writer
St John's
Elanie Potter Richardson
Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson
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Miner
Opportunity
Treasure
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If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is black or white. I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race.
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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
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Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around and walk around. Apparently people often see me standing there and they wave to me and I don't see them because I am reading the landscape.
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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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One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.
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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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If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.
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I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.
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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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I've never gotten used to winter and never will.
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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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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
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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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When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.
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The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.
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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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I was just looking at moving to Cambridge, and a house I was looking at cost a million dollars. Because somehow, that's what a house costs. And I was thinking, How can it be? And I was thinking, What am I doing? Am I going to be Niall Ferguson, that horrible man?
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Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.
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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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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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