Top 18 Marlon James Quotes



Miss Betsy is looking at me. Some jealousy sure, but every woman have that in them

 

That’s the problem with peace. Peace make you careless.

 

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.

 

He said he had evidence that the Company was giving the opposition party money, which was just preposterous considering what bad form it would have been, trusting anybody in the Third World with money.

 

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

 

Bad feeling is a country no woman want to visit. So they take good feeling any which way it come. Sometime that good feeling come by taking on a different kind of bad feeling.

 

My mother sings One day at a time sweet Jesus, and even Daddy likes to say that, one day at a time, as if it’s some strategy for living. And yet the quickest way to not live at all is to take life one day at a time.

 

Because every man who fight monster become a monster too, and there be at least one woman in Kingston who think me is the killer of all things name hope.

 

I think that’s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it’s not a secret at all; men just don’t know how to listen.

 

I see seven people in one room and one pregnant and people fucking anyway because people so poor that they can’t even afford shame and I wait

 

Is true, you do feel better about things the further you run from it

 

hate people like that, people you have to protect while they keep hurting you.

 

Hate and love be closer cousin than like and dislike.

 

Then I wondered if everybody has that person that haunts them, the one that got away.

 

Write about only three things: what you love, what you hate, and what you’re deeply conflicted about.

 

Three year in prison and a dick is just another thing to put up your ass.

 

I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences – the people who live on with this death.

 

We shouldn’t romanticize rejection. There’s nothing romantic about rejection. It’s horrible.

 

 

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