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Jamaica Kincaid is a celebrated novelist known for her distinctive style and poignant storytelling. Born on May 25, 1949, she has made significant contributions to the literary world with her works that often explore themes of identity, colonialism, and the complexities of the human experience.

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“I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.”

Knows Feels Mother Felt Echoes Mother's Love

Book:Lucy: A Novel

Source: Lucy: A Novel

“But no longer could I aks God what to do, since the answer, I was sure, would not suit me. I could do what suited me know, as long as I could pay for it. 'As long as I could pay for it.' That phrase soon became the tail that wagged my dog. If I had died then, it should have been my epigraph.”

Ifs Knows Should Long Has Beens Answers Pay Dog Should Have Died Suits Phrases Tails My Dog Should Have Been Epigraphs

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“You know how they say a man's house is his castle? I think for a woman, it's her body. I feel so strongly about a woman's right to choose. This is my Zionism. It's not a "right" any more than it's a right to breathe, to take in oxygen.”

Thinking Knows Men Feels Body House Know How Breathe Oxygen Castles Zionism

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.”

Knows Writing Wanted Islands

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Who I Am

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

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

Knows Want Persons Fiction

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes I happen to explore that in terms of the black/white dynamic. Generally, a white person does not like me to say, or does not like to be told, "You know, what you did was incredibly wrong."”

Knows Writing Humans Persons Doe Sometimes Happens Black Term Human Beings White Situation Universal Like Me Describing Black White

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I'm always surprised to hear or read my work described, "In angry tones, she says." No! In truthful tones! Does truth have a tone? I don't know.”

Knows Doe Angry Tone Truthful

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.”

People Knows Trade Good Things Slave Hideous Slave Trade Globalism

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.”

People Knows Want Seems Able Amount Profit Fantastic

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.”

Ifs Knows Persons Has Beens Known

Book:The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel

Source: The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel

“But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington go? Did George Washington go to college? This idea which we now have that people ought to have these credentials is really ridiculous. Where did Homer go to college?”

People Knows Ideas Teaching College Ought Ridiculous Credentials Eliot Bronte Paine

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Love Someone Cool Love

Book:The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel

Source: The Autobiography of My Mother: A Novel

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

Knows Successful Failing Being Successful Afraid To Fail

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

About the Author

Born: May 25, 1949
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 182

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