In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.
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I come from a very big family from every economic background. Some of the streets I talk about, I've actually walked on because I have family from there. Jamaica has so many contradictions.
My family were from Jamaica.
I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I've been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there's not really much that comes out of Jamaica that's on a plate that I don't like.
Jamaica full of ghetto, but boy, I tell you: me never see it like that.
I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.
When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
Being in Jamaica, I feel comfortable there.
Out of all the places in the world, Jamaica is my favorite place.
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.
Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.
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