Marlon James Quotes
Top 96 wise famous quotes and sayings by Marlon James
Marlon James Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Me love that man to the max. Me would take a bullet for the Singer. But gentlemens, me can only take one.
Only a matter of time before you make enemies as ruthless as you, after all you're the one raising the bar
Me have a rule with woman. If your titty prettier and your body hotter than my woman I'll deal with you. Otherwise, fuck off.
I see the calm and hear the calm and know the calm can't last. Not for me, not for him, not for Kingston, not for Jamaica. For
- You different, Lilith. You have more darkness 'bout you now. You turning into woman, Homer say to her. - Me turning into something, Lilith say.
Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late.
If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized.
Homer say, Pretty gal go a river and see herself in water. Pretty gal drown when she go down to kiss herself.
I was the nerd. Because I was reading. I wasn't into sports. I was really into art. Very geekish about comics. Assumed gay.
The white man say we're fighting for freedom from totalitarianism, terrorism and tyranny, but nobody know what he mean. I
There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.
- The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it.
Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait.
The two men who bring guns to the ghetto don't know what to do since when music hit you can't hit it back.
I have a theory that while a man might not always get the wife he wants or needs, he always gets the wife he deserves.
Write about only three things: what you love, what you hate, and what you're deeply conflicted about.
What really boils me blood is that it's not that Daddy didn't have money, but he never could think of a single good reason to spend it.
If you going rape me, rape me already and leave me in whichever ditch you leave woman. Just stop bore me with your r'asscloth mouth
Everybody know that condom and birth control was white man scheme to kill off black people, but he don't care.
They turned over the reception desk and the poor security guards did the only thing they could do. They ran.
Is not gone, you're in the flatness of the deadlands. Time doesn't stop. You watch it move but you are still, like a painting with a Mona Lisa smile.
I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.
That's what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device.
-Come on, Bill. As small as America's dick is, those limeys will stretch across the Atlantic to suck it.
Then coffin, black with silver handles with the dead boy in a black velvet suit. If you're never gonna sweat why not go out in winter style?
After Tuesday come Wednesday. And what you do on Tuesday change the type of Wednesday that going come to you.
Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.
Learn this, all nice and decent people. An election year commence as soon as the first gunshot buss.
I laugh because me been dancing with shadow in the dawn and in the night. Even in broad, bright daylight we searching for the dark.
Now he is a man who could talk to God and the devil and make them work they difference
as long as neither of them have a woman.
as long as neither of them have a woman.
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.
At 28 years old, seven years out of college, I was so convinced that my voice outed me as a fag that I had stopped speaking to people I didn't know.
Every time you reach the edge, the edge move ahead of you like a shadow until the whole world is a ghetto, and you wait.
Maybe because is December. After all, only when we come to Revelation that we take stock of Genesis, right?
People would say that if the Rum Preacher was all that stood between Heaven and Hell, then everybody had better stock up on asbestos.
Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far apart.
Preacher says there is a god-shaped void in everybody life but the only thing ghetto people can fill a void with is void.
We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
My mother is so afraid of trouble that trouble sticks to her close just because he never gets tired of proving a point.
- Little pussy like me still have bigger cock than the two of them, she say. She pull the gag out of Sacco mouth. - What you gonna do, Miss
But he starting to confuse representing people with owning them, and soon even he going need a reckoning.
Some of the craziest aspects about 'Weeper' were the things I found out to be true. I mean, true of people.