For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The … - Jamaica Kincaid

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I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.

Jamaica Kincaid

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided. This is the life I have. This is the life I write about.

Pain, Private, Public, Reality, Way, Writing

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If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.

Kitchen, Lines, Understand, World

An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.

Pausing, Stupid, Tourist, Travel, Ugly, Ugly Things

I write out of defiance.

Defiance, Write, Writing

The strange thing about my life is that I came to America at about the time when racial attitudes were changing. This was a big help to me. Also, the people who were most cruel to me when I first came to America were black Americans. They made absolute fun of the way I talked, the way I dressed. I couldn't dance. The people who were most kind and loving to me were white people. So what can one make of that? Perhaps it was a coincidence that all the people who found me strange were black and all the people who didn't were white.

Attitude, Fun, People, Perhaps, Strange, Way

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.

Discovery, Light, Swim, Upside