#jamaica

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

She had shown me how to behave when applying for a job, how to show the proper amount of respect, submission, eagerness to please, even though in my heart I would not mean any of those things; she said that as soon as I had the job and was safely in it, I could let my real personality come out. I was not opposed to deception, but I woud have preferred not to start out that way. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#lucy #respect

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#black #black family #care #comes #country