Family Quote by Marlon James

“Nobody falls that way without being pushed. I know. And I know how it feels and looks, a body that falls fighting air all…

— 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…

— Marlon James

The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.

— Marlon James

In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or…

— Marlon James

“I miss you, sister," he say. "I miss me too," she say. Always too clever but not clever enough to know when to blow…

— Marlon James

“Devil has his part to play.”

— Marlon James

What I find, particularly with young writers and readers, is that they don't want complicated feelings.

— Marlon James

At 28 years old, seven years out of college, I was so convinced that my voice outed me as a fag that I had…

— Marlon James

“The white man say we’re fighting for freedom from totalitarianism, terrorism and tyranny, but nobody know what he mean. I”

— Marlon James

“Nineteen seventy-six come and bring an election with it. The man who bring guns to the ghetto made it clear, that there is no…

— Marlon James

“She not black, she mulatto. Mulatto, mulatto, mulatto. Maybe she be family to both and to hurt white man just as bad as hurting…

— Marlon James

“Shiny like new zinc holding up a roof or a fence right beside old zinc, the material itself a living history of when last…

— Marlon James