Best Quotes by Jamaica Kincaid (Top 6)

  1. Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.
  2. There's something to be said about a slightly plump person"ツ輩ou have just enough of too much.
  3. The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.
  4. 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.
  5. One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the feelings I had were possible to have; and then one day I was not living like that at all. I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of people you used to be and things you used to do. Your past is the person you no longer are, the situations you are no longer in.
  6. ...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.