I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.
Jamaica KincaidI used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.
Jamaica KincaidI like to be depressing. I feel it's my duty to make everyone a little less happy. You know that line in the Declaration of Independence, "the pursuit of happiness"? I've come to think that it has no meaning at all. You cannot pursue happiness. And to think that this bad little sentence has determined our lives.
Jamaica Kincaid