Urban Fiction Quotes

“For anyone with a library in their head and love in their heart,”
― Kevin Ansbro, The Fish That Climbed a Tree

“I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!”
― Donald Goines, Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp

“Jaeshawn!” I screamed. My hips bucked off the bed, as the sucking grew more intense. I could feel a tightening sensation in my stomach that sent tingles to the ends of my toes. He stopped sucking and roughly dragged his tongue over my love button, over and over again, until I felt like I was going to explode. "Jaeeee!” I screamed as I started to ride his tongue.”
― Jaguar Jonez, Dem Country Girls Love Hard: Everybody Starts Off With A Clean Slate

“Christian name hell! I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!”
― Donald Goines, Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp

“Secret Saturdays ought to be required reading at middle schools everywhere. Maldonado gives us both voice and heart. His young characters navigate a challenging world with endearing earnestness, lively style, and a heartening desire for true friendship and dignity.”
― E.R. Frank

“Family is a permanent adhesive that creates a lifetime bond.”
― Conrad Brooks

“You CAN have your cake and eat it too. Just don't start choking.”
― Shantale Finnerty, Enticing Taboos

“The trick set me up. It's that simple.”
― Shadez, The Daddy Game

“I don't imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead.”
― Justin Alcala, The Devil in the Wide City

“Living is deeper than just life”
― Tru Lyfe

“We stared at each other in silence until she looked away. I won. I always won, because I had my daddy’s eyes and she could only stare for so long, without looking away. I had my own ways of getting to Baby-Sweet.”
― Jaguar Jonez, Dem Country Girls Love Hard: Everybody Starts Off With A Clean Slate

“She tried to put her key through the door, but it was already open. As she pushed open the door, she almost died of shock at what she laid eyes on.”
― J.M. Tucker, The Perfect Quickie Volume 1

“My work comes how I perceive the world around me. I write from a point of empathy, free from judgement, to greater understand my finite existence and help others navigate through theirs. My stories are testimonials of my emotional experiences and discoveries intertwined with ever-present mysteries."

-- Ernest Langston”
― Ernest Langston, Beyond Everyday Secrets

“Life is short. Stories are forever.”
― Joe West, Strange Fle$h

“Shed the pains of yesterday and seize the plans of tomorrow.”
― Catherine Crumber, Elevated, a Tale

“Ricostruire non è mai stato un problema per noi. Chi è rimasto ancorato all’ideale punk degli anni Settanta interpreta ancora il mondo e la vita in termini di demolizione — "distruggi il sistema" e cose del genere. Cose che andavano bene un bel po' di anni fa. Ma i tempi sono cambiati, anche per effetto di quella stessa rivoluzione, e i mezzi di rivolta che erano efficaci allora non hanno più alcun senso in un contesto diverso. Quello che la maggior parte dei ribelli non capisce è che, a forza di distruggere, non è rimasto niente. Per questo, non avendo più niente da abbattere, ci siamo ritrovati a demolire noi stessi.”
― Sara Zelda Mazzini

“I’m the muhfucka that did this to you! If y’all don’t know me, you better get to know me, or fuck around and wind up wit’ a hole in your forehead.”
― Brooklyn June, This Game Has No Loyalty

“What does it take to get you on board with building this district to mirror Coral Gables or the Hamptons?”
― Thomas Barr Jr., Overlords Karma; Miami's Urban Chronicles; Volume 1

“There’s something electric about someone believing you’re the real deal.”
― Danila Botha, Too Much on the Inside

“We were about to make love in the same bed I shared with my husband, and the extent of our immorality was weighing in on both of us, but not enough to stop us.”
― Jaguar Jonez, Dem Country Girls Love Hard: Everybody Starts Off With A Clean Slate

“What you do, boy, is get the money and get as far away from here as you can. Don't even stay for your brother's funeral. It might end up being yours also. So start running and maybe one day you and me both will be thankful for what's happening. I don't know. I know your mother deserves more than a double funeral. When your mother talks to you, I hope you will keep this between us. It won't help matters if she knows I'm the one who made Jimmy pay for his ugliness.”
― Donald Goines, Daddy Cool: A Father Out to Revenge His Daughter's Shame

“He limited his jewelry to a modest bracelet sporting a twenty-carat diamond set in platinum...”
― Nikki Turner, Forever a Hustler's Wife

“He wrapped his rancid layer of flesh around her beautiful skin. He smothered his will into her weak mind and abused every sense of self she possessed. She was a lost girl before, but now, she was empty.”
― D.W. Thomas, His Next Victim

“The dead may be silent, but those who know the truth are not.”
― Allan Davis, Discards

“No one wants to be poor. They just don't have what it takes to be not-poor.”
― Allan Davis, Discards

“Just be careful. Our strengths can be our weaknesses, too.”
― Catherine Adel West, Saving Ruby King

“A young guy walked up to him with an exaggerated swagger, his jeans riding low, his CK underwear showing - or fake ones, an a replacing the e in Klein.
"You really the Baptist's cousin?" the guy said, squinting at him, giving Joshua a onceover like Malik had. If anything, he resembled both guards, just with a neck. He was also younger and skinnier, with a nose ring and a nest of short dreads flopping over his eyes, the back and sides closely cropped.
"Yes," Joshua replied, glancing at the bullseye tattoo circling what looked like a tracheotomy scar.
The guy touched the base of his throat, noticing the attention. "You're tall like him, got that crazy look too, like you've smoked too many Bible blunts."
"Izzy!" Nico yelled, looking horrified.
Izzy sniggered. "I mean no harm," he said, his smile saying otherwise.”
― M. A. Plume, Joshua’s Cross

“Truth is, for every galaxy that far surpasses every planet, there is a Hood. In every Hood, there is birthed a remnant of greatness and uniqueness like no other. Against all odds, that remnant shall be a mighty force that changes the game”!”
― Mya A Chavis, A Sovereign Pursuit: Stolen Justice Redeemed Limited Edition with Illustration's

“Whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.” Matthew 21:22”
― Tarris Marie, Blaque Pearle

“Ronald is a very shrewd, crazy, and determined killer who is not from Delaware where there are few thinkers but too many fools who had the inability to mind their own business. They both bemoaned this fact about Delaware.”
― Ronald Limberry