Jamaica Kincaid Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Culture, Outlaw, American Culture

  "Jamaica Kincaid on writing and 'outlaw American' culture". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.usatoday.com. March 7, 2013.

• When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Country, Hippie, Vegetables

  "Jamaica Kincaid on writing and 'outlaw American' culture". Interview with Nathan Rostron, www.usatoday.com. March 7, 2013.

• It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  White, Black, Doe

  "'Our Sassy Black Friend' Jamaica Kincaid". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2013.

• Most of the nations that have serious gardening cultures have, or had, empires. You can't have this luxury of pleasure without somebody paying for it. This is nice to know. It's nice to know that when you sit down to enjoy a plate of strawberries, somebody got paid very little so that you could have your strawberries. It doesn't mean the strawberries will taste different, but it's nice to enjoy things less than we do. We enjoy things far too much, and it leads to incredible pain and suffering.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Pain, Nice, Mean

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