A Brief History of Seven Killings
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"A Brief History of Seven Killings" Quotes

By Marlon James

fiction | 704 pages | Published in 2014

ISBN_13: 9780698170506
ISBN_10: 0698170504

Quotes

I don't give a damn what it means about history or science or literature. I just know what it means to me and it don't make no damn sense.

Marlon James

That's always been the problem with people from here: you put too much damn faith in politicians.

Marlon James

Them think we dumb, but we not dumb. Them think we forming—no, we not forming. We just don't like them problem.

Marlon James

We dream more of being gangster than girl. Seriously, we do. God, you people love that shit.

Marlon James

Love doesn't have no color, no class, no shape, no sex. Love is the answer when no question was asked.

Marlon James

The more blood flowing the better.

Marlon James

I've never been scared of dead. Dead is easy. It's the living I hate.

Marlon James

We are a nation of identity thieves, which is to say that the world doesn't want us unless we're imitation people.

Marlon James

Don't care how long you live, don't care how long you dead. The only thing that matter is what you leave behind.

Marlon James

It's not the bad parts of the city that think they're Americans. It's the good parts. The clean-scrubbed parts with expensive suits and underage whores.

Marlon James