A Brief History of Seven Killings

by Marlon James

If it no go so, it go near so. —Jamaican proverb

Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait.

But worst come first.

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

But sometimes when you’re too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.

I love how Americans can just claim something to be whatever they feel it is, despite clear evidence it’s not.

People with no plan wait and see. People with a plan see and wait for the right time.

what don’t go so, go near so.

Brethren, if me did know why people like me end up in prison, people like me wouldn’t end up in prison. Feel free to start your first paragraph that way, call it ghetto wisdom or something, whatever you white people write whenever you get all caught up in shady black people.