"I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Live Life Quotes #Home Quotes #Heart Quotes

“There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.”

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“It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes to our shores, and thereby create desire and with it shame for that desire. Indeed, it is worse still than that: Precisely because we worry publicly that we are insensitive, our enemies scoff privately that we in fact are too sensitive - what we think is liberality and magnanimity they see as license and decadence. If we don't have confidence in who we are, why should they?”
“I find that people in American are often much more purist. If you're into hip-hop, you're totally into hip-hop - you wear the uniform, that's all you listen to. If you're a goth, you're totally a goth - you've got, like, 4,000 piercings, black hair, you really go for it.”

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“Ending poverty and ensuringÂ sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central toÂ both of them.”
“Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.”
“I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!”

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“I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.”
“I was born with the devil in me...”

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