283 Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid

  • Author Jamaica Kincaid
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    The night-soil men can see a bird walking in trees. It isn’t a bird. It is a woman who has removed her skin and is on her way to drink the blood of her secret enemies. It is a woman who has left her skin i a corner of a house made out of wood. It is a woman who is reasonable and admires honeybees in the hibiscus.

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  • Author Jamaica Kincaid
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    That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn’t want to love one more thing in my life, didn’t want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.

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    I wouldn’t mind being labeled as “angry,” if it wasn’t used once again to denigrate and belittle.

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