John Kiriamiti
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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
[edit]My Life in Crime (1984)
[edit]- 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