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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.

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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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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Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.
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My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.
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I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.
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Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.
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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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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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What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.
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I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess.
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If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals.
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At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.
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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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I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything it likes, except a woman's reproductive existence.
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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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I've never gotten used to winter and never will.
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