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A Small Place
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"A Small Place" Quotes

"A Small Place" is a powerful essay that explores the impact of colonialism and tourism on Antigua.

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You do not know your own history and you are not sure of your future, and so you cannot start at the beginning, so you cannot stop at the end.

Jamaica Kincaid

historyuncertainty

The past is the present, and the present is the past, and the future is now.

Jamaica Kincaid

time

The thing you have always suspected about yourself the minute you become a tourist is true: A tourist is an ugly human being.

Jamaica Kincaid

tourismself-awareness

You assume that if you come from a place where the only news you see is bad news, then it must be bad.

Jamaica Kincaid

perspectivemedia

The thing you always suspected about yourself the minute you became a tourist is true: A tourist is an ugly human being.

Jamaica Kincaid

tourismself-awareness