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The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.

Jamaica Kincaid

I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

Jamaica Kincaid

History is full of great events; when the great events are said and done, there will always be someone, a little person, unhappy, dissatisfied, discontented, not at home in her own skin, ready to stir up a whole new set of great events again.

Jamaica Kincaid

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery.

Jamaica Kincaid

The photograph of my brother that is in this album shows a young man, beautiful and perfect in the way of young people, for young people are always perfect and beautiful until they are not, until the moment they just are not.

Jamaica Kincaid

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.

Jamaica Kincaid

The present will be a now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then.

Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid

Born: May 25, 1949 (age 77)

Bio: Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua, which is part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda.

Known for:

Annie John (1985)
A Small Place (1988)
The Autobiography of my Mother (1996)
See Now Then (2013)

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