Quotes About Jamaicans

#1. Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives.

Oscar Wilde

#2. I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

Jimmy Cliff

#3. I'm going to take every chance I get to make a nuisance of myself when somebody I admire is in the vicinity ...

Nick Hornby

#4. The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is not a dead book. It is alive. Open it carefully because the new truth that might come leaping out at you could change your life forever.

Mel White

#5. I was at a family friend's house and in true Jamaican style we celebrated with food. I relived every single emotionit was a moving experience. I am super-happy with all the love and support I am getting from my Jamaicans and Caribbean people.

Tessanne Chin

#6. It's funny how happiness can elude you for so long, and then you find out it's as easy as changing your mind."

---From "Hearts Reunited" (book 2 of the Law of Attraction trilogy) by Jeane Watier

Jeane Watier

#7. A beautiful bridge is a poem.

Tessa De Loo

#8. My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.

J. Philippe Rushton

#10. The truth has its own virtue, which is separate from its content.

Sofia Samatar

#11. Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

Jeff Goldblum

#12. When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.

Michael Moore

#13. Jamaicans are so unflappable, they might as well be Minnesotans.

Marlon James

#14. 'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.

John Lydon

#15. That's the thing about time travel - you're always moving forward, even when you go back.

James A. Owen

#16. The happiest people are the ones with the most community.

Barbara Kingsolver

#17. Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

Thomas Szasz

#18. Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

Heinrich Heine

#19. I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

Robert Cray

#20. You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.

Nas

#21. Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

Gautama Buddha