Jamaica Kincaid Quotes

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

There is a secret hippie within me.

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

I love the title of 'hippy' because it means someone who is thinking cosmic and futuristic.

There's nothing wrong with being a hippie.

I'm a guy who's all about peace, love, and happiness. I'm a bit of a hippie.

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie.

When I look back at it now, my past and the way I grew up, I grew up on communes.

At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

I'm certainly no bohemian hippie, and I do love luxury.

My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.

I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.

My dad just left high school in '69, went to Woodstock, and after half a year of college for architecture, just took off for Alaska. He bought a van and went straight into the mountains and built a cabin.

I have what some people consider to be a 'hippie' mentality.

I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.

I was raised in a bit of a hippie environment.

I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs

I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.