Quotes from Marlon James

I don't really care what other people think about art, sir. Either you get it or you don't, and it seems pretty stupid waiting on people to get it when you could just as easily enjoy having more museum space to yourself, thank to one less idiot telling me how his four-year-old daughter could do that.

Cualquier idiota que hoy en día se hace rastafari al cabo de una semana ya está soltando profecías. Y tampoco le hará falta ser demasiado agudo, basta con saberse un par de versos de la Biblia que hablen de fuego y de azufre.

Nyka was like a man coming back from things I was yet to go through.

And yet blood sticks between your fingers. A boy you circumcised, a young girl too small for your big . . . Look at how that thrills you. Look at you.

Gun Court lockup. He would still be there if Daddy didn't

And all I could think of is Oh Lord here it comes, another white man about to tell me about how much he enjoyed Ocho Rios, but would have enjoyed it so much more if it weren't for all the poverty. And the country is so beatiful and the people so friendly and even in all this tragedy everybody still manages a smile especially the bombor'asscloth children.

I love how Americans can just claim something to be whatever they feel it is despite clear evidence it is not. Like football game with nobody using any feet that takes forever.

Before you see the monkey, the monkey has seen you.

Up is everything and down just means all the white people want to party on your street on Sunday night to feel realness. Midway is nowhere.

Look at this leper accusing another leper of leprosy.

Dead. It sounds final but it's a word missing an ing.

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.

Everybody lives in their own Jamaica and damn if that was ever going to be mine.

Under the gully you just never know how the stink can drive a man mad. How he can think crazy shit and wicked shit and nasty shit, kill a baby shit or fuck a little girl shit or shit in church shit because the stink so stink all you can think is that the stink must be easing into you like water through a strainer and now you must be stink too. And I just want to wash it off, I just want to wash the whole thing off but the water running through the gully stink too.

Go to Hanover and take a name like Everton or Courtney or Fitzharold, a name that sound like both mother and father raise me.

The problem with proving something is that instead of leaving you alone people never stop giving you new things to prove, harder things.

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.

When dog kill puss, and puss kill dog, the only one happy is the john-crow.

What a day when a man tell me what to do.

Jesus Superman Spiderman Captain America stare hard and superpower goin' come superpower

Kimmy's not really talking to you. She only needs a witness, not an audience.

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. I really need to take a shower.

Me love that man to the max. Me would take a bullet for the Singer. But gentlemens, me can only take one.

There was this gate and it was just some rusty gate but I knew I had to get through it. The only way forward is through. Who said that? I had to get through it, if I didn't I would die, get cut open, sliced with a knife from the neck right down to labia with me screaming all the time, I just had to get through the fucking gate.