A biography for Jamaica Kincaidhasn’t been written yet.
“No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.”
“Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.”
“I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was that they had known me from the moment I was born.”