Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zora Neale Hurston

So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.

Zora Neale Hurston

To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.

Ziggy Marley

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

Usain Bolt

I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.

Tessanne Chin

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

Lauryn Hill

I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.

Nas

Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.

Michael Franti

When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

Sara Blakely

When something I can't control happens, I ask myself : where is the hidden gift, where is the positive in this?

Richard M. Nixon

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Willa Cather

I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.

Whoopi Goldberg

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.

Kelsey Grammer

What I can control is how I react. I can't control anything else.

Linda Tripp

I can live with myself.

Charles Spurgeon

I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it.

Cat Deeley

I can't dance at all by myself.

Bob Saget

Nobody can tell me what I can or can't do, except they can.