Quotes from Marlon James

All the time she's silent. All the women were silent except the white one talking to Trent. If it wasn't for the red, green and gold and that the skirts are often denim, I'd think I was surrounded by Muslim women.

Devil has his part to play.

the ghetto should never come with a photo. The Third World slum is a nightmare that defies beliefs or facts, even the ones staring right at you. A vision of hell that twists and turns on itself and grooves to its own soundtrack.

Shiny like new zinc holding up a roof or a fence right beside old zinc, the material itself a living history of when last the politician did the ghetto a favor.

And yet the quickest way to not live at all is to take life one day at a time. It's the way I've discovered to not do a damn thing.

You never know when people's dreams are connected to you before you're gone and then there's nothing to do, but watch them die in a different way, slow, limb by limb, system by system. Heart condition, diabetes, slow-killing diseases with slow-sounding names. This is the body going over to death with impatience, one part at a time.

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

Something happen when somebody tell you something about yourself even if you already know.

Looking? —Ah . . . no . . . —Then how you're gonna know when you found it?

This is the thing about redheads, isn't it? No matter how long you've lived with them, you're always surprised when they turn and look straight at you.

They like him better when he was the poor cousin that they can feel good for taking notice. I tell him that politician do the same thing to me when they realize me can read.

Some man never get the woman who cure them from looking for another woman.

Like Jesus telling Judas To get it done already Me is you, Pilate me is you, Roman soldier You don't even know who your Judas was

Soldier don't act like we is crime and them is order, soldier act like we is enemy and this is war.

see how the white womens goin' look and hear how white womens laugh in the colonies. She think of white flesh and black flesh, that really be brown flesh by blood and the two flesh melt into one flesh that don't know colour. Then Lilith wonder if she dreaming because dreaming is one thing God never allow negro to do.

Y cantamos canciones que nos inventamos cuando dormimos y que dicen que si subes como la espuma te caerás desde las alturas.

Everybody know that condom and birth control was white man scheme to kill off black people, but he don't care.

Sometimes I have to remind even him that three feet north of this vagina is a brain. Still, even an American man don't like when a woman's too smart, especially a Third World woman whom it is his duty to educate.

Come on, Bill. As small as America's dick is, those limeys will stretch across the Atlantic to suck it.

With so much leaving your front hole, no wonder you wish for something to enter the back.

Preacher says there is a god-shaped void in everybody life but the only thing ghetto people can fill a void with is void.

killing don't need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness. Madness

I don't believe in belief.

Nobody loves no one.