Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I'm so misunderstood!

I have always been misunderstood.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I know what it is to be misunderstood.

My biggest concern is people misunderstanding me.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

It does grieve me to think there are people misunderstanding my heart on an issue.

It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

People misunderstand me.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

If you hear the question wrong, you will answer wrong.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

I really hate misunderstandings - to a degree that it's hard for me to watch sitcoms, or any kind of funny movie where there's, like, this big mishap, or miscommunication. It gives me such anxiety that I almost can't make it through the movie.

A lot of things get misinterpreted with me, I guess.

I think I'm pretty misunderstoood.

I think people have a warped sense of who I am.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

Sometimes, when I open my mouth, all hell breaks loose. Other times, I feel like a voice in the wilderness and I wonder, 'Does anybody get this?'

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.