I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.

I've never gotten used to winter and never will.

The thing to remember about the Declaration of Independence and the profession of freedom is that it was written by people who were quite free and who were surrounded by people who were not free. The people who wrote the Declaration of Independence were ventriloquists really. The obsession with freedom makes no sense when it applies to them.

when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.