{"id":4861,"date":"2023-11-05T14:08:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T18:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/top-25-marlon-james-words-of-wisdom\/"},"modified":"2023-11-05T14:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T18:08:17","slug":"top-25-marlon-james-words-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/top-25-marlon-james-words-of-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 Marlon James Words Of Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p> Marlon James is a Jamaican professor and writer. He has written four book and teaches literature at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.<br \/>He left Jamaica to escape the economic conditions and homophobic violence. He got a master\u2019s degree in creative writing from Wilkes University in 2006. Now he is well known for his works and ranked Times Top Hundred Most Influential People In The World.<br \/>Here are some of his quotes that will enrich your mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#880404\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Inspiring Marlon James Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cKilling don\u2019t need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u2019s what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it\u2019s not a secret at all; men just don\u2019t know how to listen.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ezoic-autoinsert-video ezoic-under_first_paragraph\"\/><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-under_first_paragraph-640x360-999998-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-under_first_paragraph-640x360-999998-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-under_first_paragraph-426x240-999998-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-under_first_paragraph-426x240-999998-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-under_first_paragraph-384x216-999998-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-under_first_paragraph-384x216-999998-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it no go so, it go near so. \u2014Jamaican proverb\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8658 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0004.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0004-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0004-364x510.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0004-313x438.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8658 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0004.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0004-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0004-364x510.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0004-313x438.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color:#956f06\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>\u201cThe dream didn\u2019t leave, people just don\u2019t know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ezoic-autoinsert-video ezoic-under_second_paragraph\"\/><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-under_second_paragraph-640x360-999997-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-under_second_paragraph-640x360-999997-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-under_second_paragraph-426x240-999997-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-under_second_paragraph-426x240-999997-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-under_second_paragraph-384x216-999997-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-under_second_paragraph-384x216-999997-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Love isn\u2019t saying, I love you but calling to say, did you eat\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut in another city, another valley, another ghetto, another slum, another favela, another township, another intifada, another war, another birth, somebody is singing Redemption Song, as if the Singer wrote it for no other reason but for this sufferah to sing, shout, whisper, weep, bawl, and scream right here, right now.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others\u2019 success\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ezoic-autoinsert-video ezoic-mid_content\"\/><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-mid_content-640x360-999996-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-mid_content-640x360-999996-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-mid_content-426x240-999996-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-mid_content-426x240-999996-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-mid_content-384x216-999996-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-mid_content-384x216-999996-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut sometimes when you\u2019re too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0000-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8660 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0000-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0000-1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0000-1-364x510.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0000-1-313x438.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0000-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8660 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0000-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0000-1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0000-1-364x510.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0000-1-313x438.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color:#8b6909\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><em><strong>\u201cThat\u2019s what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2014The problem with a book is that you never know what it\u2019s planning to do to you until you\u2019re too far into it.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things I fucking hate about my fellow Americans: whenever they fly to a foreign country, first thing they do, they try to find as much of America as they can get their hands on, even if it\u2019s food in the shitty cafeteria.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, most of this feminism business was nothing more than white American women telling non-white women what to do and how to do it, with this patronizing if-you-become-just-like-me-you\u2019ll-be-free bullshit\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ezoic-autoinsert-video ezoic-longer_content\"\/><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-longer_content-640x360-999994-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-longer_content-640x360-999994-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-longer_content-426x240-999994-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-longer_content-426x240-999994-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-longer_content-384x216-999994-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-longer_content-384x216-999994-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBi oju ri enu a pamo. Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8663 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0002.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0002-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0002-364x510.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0002-313x438.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8663 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0002.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0002-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0002-364x510.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0002-313x438.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBecause people so poor that they can\u2019t even afford shame and I wait.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ezoic-autoinsert-video ezoic-longest_content\"\/><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-longest_content-640x360-999993-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-longest_content-640x360-999993-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-longest_content-426x240-999993-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-longest_content-426x240-999993-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-longest_content-384x216-999993-clearholder --><!-- ezoic_video_placeholder-longest_content-384x216-999993-nonexxxclearxxxblock --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who say they don\u2019t have a choice just too coward to choose.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJamaica never gets worse or better, it just finds new ways to stay the same.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBad 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.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8662 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0003.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0003-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0003-364x510.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0003-313x438.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8662 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0003.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0003-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0003-364x510.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0003-313x438.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color:#926c03\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>\u201cLiving people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoman breed baby, but man can only make Frankenstein.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate people like that, people you have to protect while they keep hurting you.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA man will suffer misery to get to the bottom of truth, but he will not suffer boredom.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHate and love be closer cousin than like and dislike.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8661 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0001-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0001-364x510.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0001-313x438.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8661 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0001.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0001-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0001-364x510.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.thesuccesselite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20200625_114709_0001-313x438.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color:#856201\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-right has-medium-font-size\"><strong><em>\u201cWhen building monsters don\u2019t be surprised when they become monstrous.\u201d \u2013Marlon James<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem with a book is that you never know what it\u2019s planning to do to you until you\u2019re too far in it.\u201d \u2014 Marlon James<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u201cWhen kings fall they fall on top of us.\u201d \u2014<br \/>Marlon James<\/p>\n<p> <!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlon James is a Jamaican professor and writer. He has written four book and teaches literature at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.He left Jamaica [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}