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On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.
Jamaica Kincaid
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Jamaica Kincaid
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 25
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Elanie Potter Richardson
Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson
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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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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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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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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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What I don't write is as important as what I write.
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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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I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.
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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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It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.
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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's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.
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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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I'm so used to being misunderstood.
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When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.
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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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One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
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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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A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.
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He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.
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I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten and, although I didn't understand it, I loved the idea that this woman had written a book. I wanted to be her.
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