“No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The p...” — Jamaica Kincaid Quote

“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.”

“Everyone who knew me as a child, they say they're not surprised that I became a writer because I wrote all the time. I don't remember writing, because I wouldn't have had the tools, but I think what they are saying is that I would pretend I was a writer.”

“Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.”

“I'm so used to being misunderstood.”

“I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.”

“You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.”

“We learn to hear the music only when we realize that time is in a flow and that which has flown will never flow again.”

“Leveraging existing resources is innovation’s sweetest play.”

“At the bus station, time seems deserted and the atmosphere perplexed.”

“... And two thousand years, that's nothing, the earth had existed for thousands and thousands more years than that and would probably exist for thousands more. The water will flow for thousands of years more, without him seeing it. And even if the world did end, that still didn't really mean anything. There would be so much more time afterwards, time would never end. And all that time, he would be dead.”

“The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless”

“Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable “tin ear” makes it impossible to hear any signs of empathy or capture the vibrant qualities of ‘sharing’. ("Only needed a light ")”