John Kiriamiti

John Kiriamiti (born 14 February 1950) is a Kenyan former bank robber turned writer. Kiriamiti is best known as the writer of My Life in Crime and My Life with a Criminal: Milly's Story, which were both a sensation among Kenyan youth in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Quotes

My Life in Crime (1984)

• The skyline, gawking with architectural indigence, towered over the bowl like a row of stained, gap-toothed jawbones.

• The Swahili say that what you are not taught by your parents, you'll be taught by the world.
  • Chapter 1

• You look very bright these days Jack, very smart too. Seems as if your uncle spares you a lot of pocket money.
  • Chapter 1

• Sometimes, even the oddest thing can turn out to be funny.
  • Chapter 1

• Save your calories for future use and for someone else, baby. I never want company and if I ever do, I know where to get it from.
  • Chapter 2

• If you really feel you want me, talk to my mother as a gentleman.
  • Chapter 3

• When things are as they are now, one is better off with his mouth shut.
  • Chapter 4

• Prostitutes and criminals are alike. They like boasting much though I don't like it.
  • Chapter 5

• If I don't take care, the next time you hear about me, I'll be rotting in prison, which I am sure you wouldn't like.
  • Chapter 5

• I have prepared everything for them and the day after tomorrow they will join St. Theresa's school.
  • Chapter 6

• It is very hard to find you a decent job here. You know they speak French and everything here in the offices is run in French.
  • Chapter 7

• Shall I ever want to leave this place where I feel so secure and go back to a Kenya where every cop would draw his gun wherever I was sighted?
  • Chapter 7

• If you don't stop the affair between you and Miss Makarios, I'll do a thing you'll regret for as long as you live.
  • Chapter 8

• That's how things go. When you need sunshine, you get rain and when you need rain, you get sunshine.
  • Chapter 10

• While you arrange positions tomorrow, you'd better stay informed that I trust my .45 only in my hands.
  • Chapter 11

• You are not going to stop anywhere under any circumstances unless I tell you so.
  • Chapter 12

• When you have stayed in prison for as long as that, you become somehow mentally confused.
  • Chapter 14

External links

• My Life in Crime