Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.
Kincaid, Jamaica. Conversations with Jamaica Kincaid. Edited by Maxine Lavon Montgomery, University Press of Mississippi, 2004.
The Cupeno Indians were considered “Mission Indians” and hence were taxed by San Diego California authorities although they had no representation in government nor could they vote. Garra led his people and tried to unite all the Indians of California in an armed uprising against “taxation without representation”. He was found guilty and executed by a firing squad although he has not been terribly different from the New England patriots rebelling against the English.
Revolutionary violence and excesses are
Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda). She lives in North Bennington, Vermont (in the United States), during the summers, and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University during the academic year.
