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I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

Jamaica Kincaid

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Jamaica Kincaid
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 25
Novelist
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Elanie Potter Richardson
Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson
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the first step in claiming yourself is anger. You get mad. And you can't do anything before you get angry. And I recommend getting very angry to everyone, anyone.
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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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The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.
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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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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 had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example a sense of duty to my parents obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.
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In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?
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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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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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I've come to see that I'm saying something that people generally do not want to hear.
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if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.
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One doesn't have to pursue unhappiness. It comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.
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The African-American is often used, and has conspired with the rest of America to be used, as a diversion from America's problems. I wish African-Americans would stop contributing to this sideshow. I also wish all African-Americans would cease to sing and dance just for a generation. I think we provide too much entertainment.
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I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend!
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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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...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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The people who invented race, who grouped us together as black, were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.
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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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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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Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.
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