Jamaica Kincaid

For isn’t it odd that the only language I have in which to speak of this crime is the language of the criminal who committed the crime?

By that time, I had already started to think of myself as rebellious, so of course I completely identified with Lucifer.

You know, Norman Mailer would put himself in his books, and no one made it seem that he was doing something less.

Wordsworth would have been very upset to know that his wonderful poems were being used as a weapon of empire.