“ Or just claim it come from Leviticus since nobody ever read Leviticus. This is how you know. Nobody who get to the end of Leviticus can still take that book seriously. Even in a book full of it, that… Marlon James
“ We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible. Marlon James
“ 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… Marlon James
“ Write about only three things: what you love, what you hate, and what you’re deeply conflicted about. Marlon James
“ People think blood red, but blood don't got no colour. Not when blood wash the floor she lying on as she scream for that son of a bitch to come, the lone baby of 1785. Not when the baby wash in crimso… Marlon James
“ 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 Marlon James
“ 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. Marlon James
“ 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. Marlon James
“ 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… Marlon James
“ 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. Marlon James
“ 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 Marlon James
“ 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… Marlon James
“ 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. Marlon James