"I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture."

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Jamaica Kincaid

#Culture Quotes #Outlaw Quotes #American Culture Quotes

“The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.”
“At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through; at each epoch the world was lost, and at each epoch it was saved.”
“It's like this," he'd explained once to Connie. "If someone gave you a single rose, you'd be happy, right?" "Okay," he went on, "Now imagine someone gives you ten thousand roses." "That is a whole lotta roses," she said. "That's too much." "Right. Too much. But more than that, it makes each individual rose much less special, right? It makes it hard to pick one out and say, 'That's the good one.' And it makes you want to just get rid of them all because none of them seem special now." Connie had narrowed her eyes. "Are you saying when you're at school you just want to get rid of everyone?”
“At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.”

Source : Manning Marable (1997). “Black Liberation in Conservative America”, p.200, South End Press
“My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.”
“Morality is the weakness of the mind.”
“It's been a long time since I've been in the playoffs. I want to get back there.”
“The easiest person to deceive is one's self.”

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