Quotes by Jamaica I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big. Ziggy Marley jamaica bigs pressure I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture. Ziggy Marley jamaica coconuts culture 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 jamaica energy artist Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems. Ziggy Marley jamaica usa america In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still. Ziggy Marley jamaica kids years I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me. Ziggy Marley jamaica cities running 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 jamaica strange-places travel I've been in Africa, America, moving around a lot. It's helped me to open up my mind. I was born in Jamaica; I've lived all my life there and got all I could from Jamaica. But I needed to be somewhere else to grow. Ziggy Marley jamaica somewhere-else moving Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage. Ziggy Marley jamaica teaching teacher I'm not an American, Do they count the votes in America? I haven't voted in Jamaica either. Ziggy Marley jamaica vote america The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect. Zora Neale Hurston jamaica perfect islands 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. Zora Neale Hurston jamaica white class 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 jamaica generations culture The music that I represent and helped to create and establish was born in Jamaica. Jimmy Cliff create jamaica born music I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels. Marlon James books picture jamaica wanted «1234
