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Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.
Damian Marley
Me
You
Ghetto
Tell
See
Never
Like
Boy
Jamaica
Full
Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
Damian Marley
Technology
Crime
Independence
Stronger
Poverty
First
Big
Changed
Our
Drastically
Everywhere
Ours
Impact
About
Had
Economy
Dollar
Big Impact
Won
Than
Same
Jamaica
Now
Things
A family holiday to Jamaica in 2004 - my uncle was getting married out there, and it was the first holiday I'd had in Jamaica, which is where my father is from. My friends and I stayed in a really plush hotel, The Ritz-Carlton, so we had a great experience.
Alesha Dixon
Great
Family
Experience
Father
Uncle
First
Great Experience
Out
Married
Stayed
Had
Hotel
Friends
Getting
Getting Married
Where
Jamaica
Which
Holiday
Really
I want to go to Jamaica, actually. My whole family's from there, so I'd like to go there.
Astro
Family
Like
Go
Jamaica
Want
Whole
Actually
I feel really strongly about immigration because my mom is... from Jamaica. She still has a green card here.
Ayesha Curry
Mom
Immigration
About
Strongly
Feel
She
Because
Still
Green
Green Card
Jamaica
Really
Card
Here
In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.
Bob Beamon
Me
School
Ellis
Gave
High
High School
Something
Could
He
New
Make
Said
Shoot
York
New York
Jamaica
Coach
Team
Larry
Olympic
I've never shied away from country. 'Karma Chameleon' verges on country. Reggae and country are very closely linked. If you go to Jamaica, you hear a lot of country music. There's a correlation.
Boy George
Music
You
Karma
Country
Correlation
Never
Country Music
Go
Hear
Lot
Linked
Very
Closely
Jamaica
Reggae
Away
Chameleon
In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.
Damian Marley
Music
You
Old
Faster
More
Scene
Segment
Throwback
Beats
Recycled
Stuff
Like
Always
Jamaica
Reggae
Them
Root
Original
Hardcore
Present
Core
The whole world is set up so that for places like Switzerland to exist, that are crime-free and with the best care for everybody, you have to have places like Sudan, or Jamaica. But really, there's enough to share, when you check it. It's not that complicated, really. It's probably less thinking and more feeling that's required.
Damian Marley
Best
You
World
Complicated
Care
Feeling
Thinking
Enough
Everybody
More
Share
Check
Like
Exist
Up
Jamaica
Places
Really
Required
Less
Whole
Sudan
Switzerland
Set
I just love the idea of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, whether it's the success of 'Cool Runnings,' which is the success of four guys from Jamaica who had never seen snow, or whether it's my success, just as a human being.
Dawn Steel
Success
Love
People
Human Being
Seen
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Guys
Never
Had
Idea
Doing
Snow
Human
Just
Being
Jamaica
Ordinary
Whether
Which
Ordinary People
Ordinary Things
Who
Cool
Things
Four
I came here from Jamaica as a kid and didn't go to school, really, never had a great education. I was a little bit bad on the street, running around, doing this, doing that, and always getting into trouble. I was completely written off, so boxing has definitely saved my life.
Dillian Whyte
Life
Education
Great
School
My Life
Trouble
Saved
Bit
Kid
Definitely
Bad
Running
Never
Had
Written
Around
Boxing
Always
Doing
Came
Go
Off
Getting
Jamaica
Little
Little Bit
Really
Street
Here
I left Jamaica to come to England, but one place became another place. I lived in Tulse Hill, in Brixton and Coldharbour Lane.
Dillian Whyte
Come
Hill
Another
Became
Left
Jamaica
Place
Lane
England
Lived
Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.
Diplo
Music
Gay
You
Problem
Dance
First
Dancers
Kind
Kinda
Some
About
More
Had
Outspoken
Parties
Always
Go
Just
Jamaica
Biggest
Rhythm
Homophobic
My dad is a great cricket fan, and I used to play a bit back in Jamaica.
Donovan Bailey
Great
Cricket
Back
Bit
Jamaica
Fan
Used
Dad
Play
It is good to make my comeback in Jamaica after not playing for so long.
Fidel Edwards
Good
Comeback
Long
Make
Jamaica
After
Playing
Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
Grace Jones
You
Church
Think
Dancing
Pentecostal
Proper
Hymns
Up
Very
Quiet
Jamaica
Fiery
Might
Growing
Growing Up
Fundamental
Thing
British
They used to call me Firefly when I was a little girl, and I always tried to figure out why I was being called a firefly. I was really black, black, black from the sun. After being in Jamaica for 13 years, my eyes were really beady and white, and my skin was really black. I must have really looked like a fly. My eyes looked like lights, like stars.
Grace Jones
Me
Eyes
Fly
Black
Girl
White
Skin
Stars
Sun
Out
Must
Tried
Lights
Like
Looked
Call
Always
Were
Years
Being
Jamaica
After
Little
Little Girl
Really
Used
Figure
Why
Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.
Idris Elba
Beach
Years
Going
Jamaica
Twenty
Now
I picked a name that was a combination of an island name and a very English name. Havana was one choice and Dominico was another, but I liked the combination of Jamaica Kincaid.
Jamaica Kincaid
Havana
Picked
Combination
Name
Liked
Another
Island
Very
Jamaica
Choice
English
My father is from Jamaica, my mother is from the U.K., but I was adopted as an infant by a really wonderful family in Alberta, Canada. What we refer to as 'Texas of the North.'
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Family
Wonderful
Mother
Father
Adopted
Refer
Texas
Infant
Canada
North
Jamaica
Really
I love Jamaica so much. I've been there so much, and I think it would be great if we could shoot a movie there.
Jonathan Levine
Love
Great
Think
Would
Would-Be
Could
Been
Shoot
Jamaica
Movie
Much
You can tap into culture by exploring what's grown or produced in the region, like going into the Blue Mountains in Jamaica to visit a coffee plantation or a rum distillery in Barbados.
Katie Lee
You
Culture
Coffee
Mountains
Rum
Visit
Like
Tap
Blue
Going
Jamaica
Barbados
Region
Produced
Exploring
Plantation
Grown
My wife is from Jamaica. My ex-wife. My stepchildren - and then there's my son. So, it's a biracial family.
Larry Harvey
Family
Son
Wife
Ex-Wife
Jamaica
Then
I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Gould's wife when I was researching 'The Moor,' and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.
Laurie R. King
Wife
Slept
Later
Bedroom
Jamaica
Used
Researching
Inn
My mom was born in Jamaica and has always been around a community of black people, so she encouraged me to get out and act. My dad, on the other hand, is from suburban Massachusetts, so he had not been around a lot of black people.
Marley Dias
Mom
Me
People
Black
Community
Other
Out
Born
Had
He
Massachusetts
She
Around
Always
Been
Encouraged
Hand
Lot
Get
Jamaica
Suburban
Act
Dad
'The Daily Mail' interviewed my friends in Jamaica to find out if I was ever the victim of a vicious homophobic attack because, to them, I'm a gay refugee. But nothing like that happened. So, no surprise, that story didn't appear. I'm really pretty boring.
Marlon James
Daily
Gay
Victim
Nothing
Out
Find
Boring
Pretty
Attack
Mail
Like
Because
Surprise
Friends
Refugee
Jamaica
Happened
Vicious
Story
Them
Really
Appear
Ever
Homophobic
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