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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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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 think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.
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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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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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So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.
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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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All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think are nonsense. You write what you write, and then either it holds up or it doesn't hold up. There are no rules or particular sensibilities. I don't believe in that at all anymore.
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Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.
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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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There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.
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Something settiled inside me, something heavy and hard. It stayed there, and i could not think of one thing to make it go away. I thought, So this must be living, this must be the beginning of the time people later refer to as 'years ago, when I was young'.
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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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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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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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I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.
Jamaica Kincaid
I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear.
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when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.
Jamaica Kincaid
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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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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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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