#jamaica

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#grow #helps #i #jamaica #me

Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#everywhere #jamaica #problems

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#i #jamaica #last #last time #orphanage

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#come #jamaica #paradise #people #problems

He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him... This was no choice made with the mind. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#love

The night-soil men can see a bird walking in trees. It isn't a bird. It is a woman who has removed her skin and is on her way to drink the blood of her secret enemies. It is a woman who has left her skin i a corner of a house made out of wood. It is a woman who is reasonable and admires honeybees in the hibiscus. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#caribbean #jamaica-kincaid #men

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#lucy #friendship

My family were from Jamaica. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#jamaica #were

By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits out at that time that were bona fide hits. ↗

— Sean Paul

#been #bona #bona fide #by the time #fide

Take sleep mark death. ↗

— Glen L. Richards

#illu #jamaican #proverb #death