In the place I’m from you don’t have much room. You have the sea. If you step on the sea, you sink. The only thing the sea can do is take you away. People living on a tiny island are not expected to have deep thoughts about how they live, their right to live. You can have little conflicts, disagreements about what side of the street to walk on, but you cannot disagree that perhaps there should not be a street there. You cannot disagree about fundamental things, which is what an artist would do. All they’re left with is a kind of pastoral beauty, a kind of natural beauty, and wonderful trinkets…
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Jamaica Kincaid was a contemporary American antiguan-american writer. Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan–American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. Born in St. Read more on Wikipedia →