Jamaica Kincaid Quotes About Pleasure

• But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go--so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they enjoy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Reality, Envy, Boredom

• At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Mother, Reading, Eden

• La verdad a la que tenemos que enfrentarnos sobre el mundo en el que vivimos es que está impulsado por el beneficio, y las contradicciones y las dudas no son rentables. Producen sabiduría, pero la sabiduría no es rentable. Yo encuentro placer en la duda, pero admitámoslo, mi placer no es muy rentable. Para mí, la verdad es que las cosas significan muchas cosas a la vez, y todas ellas opuestas entre sí, y todas ellas verdaderas.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Verdad, Media, Rendimiento

• Most of the nations that have serious gardening cultures have, or had, empires. You can't have this luxury of pleasure without somebody paying for it. This is nice to know. It's nice to know that when you sit down to enjoy a plate of strawberries, somebody got paid very little so that you could have your strawberries. It doesn't mean the strawberries will taste different, but it's nice to enjoy things less than we do. We enjoy things far too much, and it leads to incredible pain and suffering.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Pain, Nice, Mean

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