We spoke English in school-proper English, not patois-and among ourselves we spoke French patois, a language that was not considered proper at all, a language that a person from France could not speak and could only with difficulty understand.� I spoke to myself because I grew to like the sound of my own voice.� It had a sweetness to me�

 

 

 

 

 

Jamaica Kincaid

The Autobiography of My Mother

1996