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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.
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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One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
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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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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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Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted they are just human beings.
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