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Quotes by Jamaican Authors
"Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay."
"Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences."
"Who knows you more...your friend or your enemy? It's your enemy that pursues with passion while your friend engages at leisure."
"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."
"Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits."
"God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song."
"She didn't care about anything, or maybe she cared too much."
"Her scar tissue, which she seems to amass both physically and mentally, may not be pretty, but they have become tougher than if she had never been wounded at all."
"Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control."
"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'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'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either."
"If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm."
"I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school."
"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."
"The black widow, who had dispatched a lover or two, was sought out for her wisdom. The young spider asked her, "Did you keep his harmful secret under the threat of danger, or did you spin a web so confusing that he didn't know if you were friend or foe? Did you release him from the web and your presence or will you give another the venom in which to finish him?" The black widow was quiet and then said, "All of the above."
"To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death."
"People will sometimes find themselves attracted to others, that's just who they are. It's what they do with that attraction that defines them."
"As long as you write, you'll never be lonely."
"I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together."
"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."
"A vast number of people bemoan the lack of love in their lives and one must wonder if it's because they're looking for a "type" or have a list of requirements that someone else has to meet first, in which case it's no wonder that they miss out, because when you love, it's not that all that you were looking for is found in another, it's that the person you love ends up making you see they are what you wanted all along; love, after all, is usually found in unforeseen places with the most unexpected people."
"Tough break-up? Trash stinks, which is why you toss it."
"You're flattered because he wants to sleep with you? Who doesn't he want to sleep with?"
"I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it."
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