151 Quotes by Marlon James

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

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.

Stop talking about truth - I fed you truth all along, but as I said before, what you want is story.

Better to be with the ancestors than to live bonded to somebody else, who might be kind, who might be cruel, who might even make you master to many slaves of your own, but was still master over you.

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.

Killing don’t need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness.

Sometimes war stop because you forget why you fight, sometimes you tired of warring, sometimes people who dead come back to you in you sleep and you can't remember them name, and sometimes you come to see that who you supposed to fight not even your enemy

Jamaica never gets worse or better, it just finds new ways to stay the same.

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.