Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

Hitler produced a local "lab experiment"; he provided me with an ideology in the same way that Marx provided one for Lenin. My task is to turn this ideology into a world movement.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

The whole white world is ours.

You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live.

Opinion is the queen of the world.

The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.

. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself.

Look into the mirror of the world, and you will see only yourself.

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.

Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.

I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.

It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world.