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.
Jamaica KincaidLove and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.
Jamaica KincaidI write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
Jamaica KincaidThere's something to be said about a slightly plump personโyou have just enough of too much.
Jamaica KincaidOften the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the world we, people who look like me, live in - and by the world, I mean our personal experience of it.
Jamaica KincaidWhat frustrates me is to see African-Americans behave as though what European-Americans say is worthwhile. It simply isn't. It's just some silly people who can make laws and have the power to enforce them. I'm often amazed at the conversations black people have about themselves. They ought to be having these conversations about white people. It's white people who are flawed and at fault.
Jamaica Kincaid