Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. May 25, 1949
Birthday: May 25
People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin.
source: "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.
topic: Writing, Thinking, Race, Diaspora, Brown Skin