I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.
Jamaica KincaidSo much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.
Jamaica KincaidI'm sometimes afraid I'll cross a line and it'll be difficult to come back, say, to dinner.
Jamaica KincaidThere are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But I want to acknowledge that with love and hate it's not simply one or the other. It's at least two, three, four, five different emotions existing at once, side by side, a broad spectrum of things alive.
Jamaica Kincaid