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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.

Jamaica Kincaid

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Jamaica Kincaid
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 25
Novelist
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University Teacher
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St John's
Elanie Potter Richardson
Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson
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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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There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.
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Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
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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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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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That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.
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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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when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.
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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 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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