Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

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.

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.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

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.

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life, from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

I understood finding the place you are born in an unbearable prison and wanting something completely different from what you are familiar with, knowing it represents a haven.