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 KincaidTags: life advice-for-daily-living the-past
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 KincaidTags: life-experience life-lessons
The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.
Jamaica KincaidTags: life fate inevitability
No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.
Jamaica Kincaid...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.
Jamaica KincaidObserving any human being from infancy, seeing someone come into existence, like a new flower in bud, each petal first tightly furled around another, and then the natural loosening and unfurling, the opening into a bloom, the life of that bloom, must be something wonderful to behold; to see experience collect in the eyes, around the corners of the mouth, the weighing down of the brow, the heaviness in heart and soul, the thick gathering around the waist, the breasts, the slowing down of footsteps not from old age but only with the caution of life-all this is something so wonderful to observe, so wonderful to behold; the pleasure for the observer, the beholder, is an invisible current between the two, observed and observer, beheld and beholder, and I believe that no life is complete, no life is really whole, without this invisible current, which is in many ways a definition of love.
Jamaica KincaidThere is a certain way that life ought to be, an ideal way, a perfect way, and there is the way that life is, not quite the opposite of ideal, not quite the opposite of perfect, it just is not quite the way it should be but not quite the way it should not be either; I mean to say that in any situation, only one or two, maybe even three out of ten, things are just what you have been praying for.
Jamaica KincaidI was afraid of the dead, as was everyone I knew. We were afraid of the dead because we never could tell when they might show up again.
Jamaica KincaidThe space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.
Jamaica KincaidTags: reality jamaica-kincaid england idea colonialism
[Unhappiness] comes to you. You come into the world screaming. You cry when you're born because your lungs expand. You breathe. I think that's really kind of significant. You come into the world crying, and it's a sign that you're alive.
Jamaica KincaidTags: alive
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