"I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself - so I don't end up saying peculiar things like 'I'm black and I'm proud.' I write so I don't end up as a set of slogans and clichÃ©s."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Writing Quotes #Black Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.”
“Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.”
“We do what we can. The results are none of our business.”

Source : Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr
“An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought.”
“On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.”
“Give back what you have learned. Share your experience.”
“I think women are really vicious in the work place, they're really jealous, really competitive. Women are emotional, they cry in toilets. The sisterhood only extends as far as the kitchen door. Men talk in logic and rational terms, they don't squark and make a noise.”
“It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.”

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