#jamaica

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#because #different #different things #energies #experience

I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#american #count #either #haven #i

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

Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#another #bbc #born #days #detective

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#basically #called #continuing #education #enrolled

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

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