"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both "black" and therefore deserve a certain kind of interaction with the world, they make race. I can't take them seriously.
Jamaica KincaidSomeone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.
Jamaica KincaidI would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontรซ, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten and, although I didn't understand it, I loved the idea that this woman had written a book. I wanted to be her.
Jamaica Kincaid