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Quotes by Jamaican Authors
"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."
"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."
"I write for ghosts, the ghosts I can't see but I know stick around. Some I know are good. Others I know are bad. The first bring me nostalgic comfort while the latter instill unease."
"I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either."
"I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody."
"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
"Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay."
"It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song."
"What was I to you?" he asked. She didn't answer but turned and walked away. That's when he knew: Nothing or everything."
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
"Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice."
"I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school."
"He was on her mind but she doesn't let anyone stay for too long."
"Religion has become so many different things. Religion is an economic thing for some people. Religion is a gun."
"Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits."
"The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was."
"If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm."
"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."
"People care much more for how things look than how things are."
"I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it."
"Some people live their lives being perpetual victims and finger pointers. To anyone who points a finger at someone else and lays all the blame at their feet instead of taking responsibility for their own behavior, I would say, "I see that finger and you know where you can put it?"
"I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story."
"I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal."
"To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death."
"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."
"I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side."
"She didn't care about anything, or maybe she cared too much."
"I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'"
"Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control."
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