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I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me.


Jamaica Kincaid

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JAMAICA KINCAID I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. ...
JAMAICA KINCAID I'm so used to being misunderstood.
JAMAICA KINCAID I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropp...
JAMAICA KINCAID The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so th...
JAMAICA KINCAID Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery int...
JAMAICA KINCAID this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don't...
JAMAICA KINCAID ...be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit; don't squat down to play marbles—y...
JAMAICA KINCAID I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.
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JAMAICA KINCAID I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one cho...
JAMAICA KINCAID I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americ...
JAMAICA KINCAID When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction w...
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JAMAICA KINCAID I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested ...
JAMAICA KINCAID What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became...
JAMAICA KINCAID The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.
JAMAICA KINCAID People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people wri...
JAMAICA KINCAID No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment fo...
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JAMAICA KINCAID No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.
GREG KINCAID When we rolled up, flames were showing on all four sides of the building.
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CLIFF KINCAID They feel that if they publish these cartoons, they will offend Muslims, causing more demonstrations...
CLIFF KINCAID Chad and Zach are two of the hottest guys on the PGA,
DON KINCAID I think that they're just scared. They're intimidated.
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NANCI KINCAID Watching the events is free. Everything is open to the public.
DON KINCAID Watching the events is free,
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DON KINCAID We've got the Hooters Tour's top 20 money winners coming. The Decatur tournament is the tour's stron...
DON KINCAID Most of the players on this tour are younger and some are just an inch away from playing on the PGA ...
DON KINCAID It's shaping up to be the best field in the tournament's 13 years here. You'll see golf as good as y...
DON KINCAID They're not going to let that happen again. In order to get back at the administration, they're goin...
CLIFF KINCAID If you remind people that terrorists are actually planning to kill us, that tends to support the cas...
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