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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

“The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.”

Mother My Own Rooms Shadow Tunes

Book:At the Bottom of the River

Source: At the Bottom of the River

“Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.”

World Bigs Would Be Eye Able Mother Wall Shadow Standing Casts Corners Frightened

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.”

Ifs Way Children Stills Self Mother Felt Interest Sleep Inspiring Standing Mothers Day Self Interest Standing Still

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying her life. There is something about this book that drives people mad with the autobiographical question.”

People Book Remember Mother Written Calling Mad

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Like father like son, like mother like daughter!”

Mother Father Son Daughter

Book:Annie John: A Novel

Source: Annie John: A Novel

“It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New England, but my children are not named Heracles and Persephone, and my daughter doesn't disappear underground every six months and emerge in the spring.”

Children Mother Months Six Married Spring Daughter England Disappear My Children My Daughter Village Composer Six Months New England Persephone Small Villages

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“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.”

Mother Brother Like Me My Brother Distinguished

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.”

Mother Reading Pleasure Taught Enormous Associates Eden Time Of My Life

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

About the Author

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

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