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Quotes by Jamaican Authors
"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die."
"If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything."
"A woman once held a Canary in the palm of her hand and stroked her and whispered a careful warning. The canary, seeking some freedom to fly, went into the mine while the woman watched in worry. The mine was filled with toxic gases and the Canary began to sing. She flew into danger, realized the threats around her, and wished to return to a place of refuge."
"Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed."
"Bravery is the ability to endure, even unto death, all types of terrible, terrifying and painful situations and we live in a time when people do all that they can to avoid hardship and pain, never realizing that strength and courage is found in both."
"I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job."
"With confidence, you have won before you have started."
"He studied the woman before him, not as lovely as she once was, ordinary in appearance, scarred by living, abandoned by many, breathtakingly to be near and altogether unforgettable. "I have no friends," she spoke forth hauntingly. "I am alone." He couldn't believe it. But then he could for the rare creature near enough to touch was out of their league. She wasn't envied for the shallowness of appearance or the superficiality of status or possessions; she was envied for being uncommon and for possessing indomitable strength, something only a lifetime of suffering could shape."
"What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life."
"Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death."
"I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any."
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
"Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot."
"She used to wander through the past as often as it beckoned her, bemoaning the loss of nostalgia. Then, for a while, she turned from it, blissfully free of its noxious clutch, and now it's back, taunting her with what she left behind, knowing she can never recapture what's gone."
"It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song."
"Have you seen what wolves do to their prey? But they do mate for life."
"He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?"
"Who hasn't been told "love you?" I don't put much stock in such words because it's the "I" that gives "love you" its true essence and intimate meaning, so unless someone can bring themselves to say "I love you," don't subtract from the significance by saying something less."
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
"Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines."
"If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say."
"I must be out of my mind if I loved you in spite of everything you've done, and anyone else would condemn you for it, but I can't condemn you at all. In my own troubled mind, I loved you for it."
"She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all."
"Some things you sentence yourself to life for."
"If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm."
"What was I to you?" he asked. She didn't answer but turned and walked away. That's when he knew: Nothing or everything."
"I'm not opposed to aging - even though society is kinder on men than women when it comes to getting old. How can I look at aging as the enemy? It happens whether I like it or not and no one is set apart from growing old; it comes to us all. Youth passes from everyone, so why deny it? I'm proud of my age. I'm proud that I've survived this planet for as long as I have, and should I end up withered, wrinkled and with a lifetime of great wisdom, I'll trade the few years of youth for the sophistication of a great mind...for however long it lasts."
"While struggling with all the loss in her life, she mournfully thought, "If only I could forget..." But that would be too easy, wouldn't it? However, she did with most; she never got too close and she never stayed too long, but there she was...struggling with all the loss in her life."
"If I blink she'll disappear," he told her. She looked at him and said,"Maybe that is the best thing for you."
"Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship, without friendship it's just lust."
"I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me."
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