63 Jamaica Quotes for You to Enjoy

In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or detained for two years, just for being found in a 'proper' neighbourhood. Marlon James

Neighbourhood Detained Proper Could Beaten Most Within Were Years Persecuted Just Being Jamaica Inch Groups Found Lives Violated Two

I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have the confidence that I have if I wasn't born here, because growing up here I knew I could become anybody I wanted to become. There was no ceiling on top of me. Michael Lee-Chin

Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding. Michael Lee-Chin

Business Easy Doing Rewarding Jamaica

The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice in diverse countries - Rwanda, South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, Australia and Norway - it forces us to face the reality that American-style punishment has been chosen. Michelle Alexander

Great Justice Reality Gift Crime Face South Africa Brazil Approaches Range Punishment Has-Been Great Gift Introducing Diverse Countries Singapore Forces Uganda Been South Questions Australia Nations Norway Africa Jamaica Us Incarceration Chosen Wide Wide Range

We've seen many heroes from Jamaica, you know, and to be put in that class or to be looked upon on that level is overwhelming. It's pretty big shoes to fill, you know. I'm a size eight, but I'll try my best. OMI

I was actually born in deep rural Jamaica and came to Kingston as a high school girl. Portia Simpson-Miller

School Girl High Rural Born High School Came Jamaica Deep Actually

Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where I am from! Sarita Choudhury

Easily Having Catch Countries Know Accents Am Italy Up Quite Where Different Jamaica Different Countries Grown Grown-Up

I think that anybody, once we leave Jamaica, automatically, any citizen becomes an ambassador for the flag, for Jamiaca. It's a country that's so rich in culture. We even have a bobsled team, and we ain't even got snow. We do everything in extreme. Shaggy

We don't have all this gay-bashing crime. You don't see that. It's not there. That is not really happening in Jamaica. But because a few artists basically sing it and put records out and the media runs with it, then the stigma becomes big, and now we're trapped with that whole thing. It's really sad. Shaggy

Sad You Crime Big Few Trapped Out Runs See Records Put Sing Because Becomes Stigma Artists Jamaica Happening Then Really Whole Media Now Thing Basically

When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it like that's what Jamaica's about. And it affects the economics of the music. Shaggy

Music You World Economics Everybody Hood See Guns About Like Looks Always Got Affects Jamaica Video

Gays and lesbians should have the same rights as anybody else, and when they're in Jamaica, they do have the same rights. Shaggy

Rights Else Gays Same Anybody Anybody Else Jamaica Should Lesbians

We are the ones out there competing, and yet we read articles and listen to people making accusations about Jamaica, and there's nobody there to take a microphone, be a big person and say, 'What you're saying is wrong, and it's a lie.' Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Being in Jamaica, I feel comfortable there. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Feel Comfortable Being Jamaica

I want to tell Jamaica, Happy 50th Anniversary. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Happy Tell Anniversary Jamaica Want

Dancehall culture in Europe is very close to Jamaica. Europe and Japan have a very close link to Jamaican dancehall culture, where it's all about sound-systems and horns and girls dancing all crazy - that happens a lot in those places. Walshy Fire

Crazy Culture Girl Dancing Those Horns About Lot Link Very Close Where Jamaica Happens Places Japan Europe

'Bloodlight and Bami' is all verite. The director Sophie Fiennes began filming Ms. Jones in the mid-2000s and simply observes her on stage and off. She follows her home to Jamaica, where the diva mellows, almost unconsciously, into a daughter, sister, and parishioner. Wesley Morris

Home Director Daughter Sister Stage Diva Follows Simply Almost She Off Began Where Jamaica Her Filming

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing. Yara Shahidi

Amazing Dinner Meet Harvard Absolutely Got Just Jamaica Conversations Professors

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