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“A man ain’t got to stand in church every Sunday to do God’s work.” (Deacon King Kong Quotes)
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“A man who doesn’t trust cannot be trusted.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“A man who doesn’t trust cannot be trusted”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“A true Irishman knows the world will one day break your heart.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“All intangibles are forgiven, I accept them and more – your faults, your dips and turns, everything, because our love is a hammer forged at the anvil of God and not even your most foolish, irrational act can break it.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“All the experience of thirty-two years on the NYPD and all the formal police training in the world was useless when the smile of someone you suddenly care about finds the bow that wraps your heart and undoes it.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“Everybody went to jail in the Cause eventually. You could be the tiniest ant able to slip into a crack in the sidewalk, or a rocket ship that flew fast enough to break the speed of sound, it didn’t matter. When society dropped its hammer on your head, well, there it is.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“Everybody went to jail in the Cause eventually. You could be the tiniest ant able to slip into a crack in the sidewalk, or a rocket ship that flew fast enough to break the speed of sound, it didn’t matter.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“Everything under God’s sun got a purpose in this world. Everything wants to live. Everything deserves life, really.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“Everything you are, everything you will be in this cruel world, depends on your word. A man who cannot keep his word is worthless.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“God was forever generous with His gifts: hope, love, truth, and the belief in the indestructibility of the good in all people.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“He was white, so his word was the gospel. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. The lies they tell each other sound better to them than the truth does when it comes out of our mouths.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“I can’t stand it when somebody who got a reputation for blasting hot air suddenly grows cold when they know something you don’t.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“I don’t get in a knot over the fibbing and twiddling things folks say about me. I got my own thoughts about things.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“I reckon I’m like most folks. Most times I don’t know what I’m doing. Sometimes I feel like I don’t hardly know enough to tie my own shoes.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“I’m a house cleaner, see. I work in dirt. I chase dirt all day. Dirt don’t like me. It don’t set there and say, ‘I’m hiding. Come get me.’ I got to go out and find it to clean it out. But I don’t hate dirt for being dirt. You can’t hate a thing for being what it is. Dirt makes me who I am. Wherever I try to rid the world of it, I’m making things a little better for somebody.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“In my business, trouble creeps up on you like an old charge account. So you work it out with the guys who won’t knife you in the back and hope the rest that you owe have amnesia. That’s how it works.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“It ain’t smart to shoot a man’s ear off. A man ain’t got but two.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“Just because you toast marshmallows with a kid on a camping trip doesn’t mean he’ll become a Boy Scout.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“May your health always be fine, and the wind at your back. May the road rise up to meet you. And may God hold you in the palm of His hand.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“Money’s not everything. If you have enough to live, that’s enough.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“Moving hot goods while cops were running an investigation in your backyard was like being the dumbest kid in class who always raises his hand anyway. No matter how stupid you are, it’s only a matter of time before the teacher calls on you.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“My job is to clean. It don’t matter what I clean. Dirt’s the same wherever it goes.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“Nothing here would change. Life in the Cause would lurch forward as it always did. You worked, slaved, fought off the rats, the mice, the roaches, the ants, the Housing Authority, the cops, the muggers, and now the drug dealers.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“Nothing in the world is normal. I can’t understand why you’d even hope for that.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. The lies they tell each other sound better to them than the truth does when it comes out of our mouths.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“Prayer. And insurance. The only two things a good Catholic ever needs.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“There is nothing on this earth so low as a mother or father who treats their child cruel.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“These drug lords are a different breed. They don’t play by the rules like the old crooks did. There’s no handshake or silent agreements, no looking the other way. Nobody’s safe. Nothing’s sacred. There’s too much money involved.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“Think of a horse. Now think of a fly on the horse’s back.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“You can’t take the love of ball out of a ballplayer. Can’t be done. There’s a baseball player in that boy.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“You got to have a principle or you ain’t nothing. What you think of that?”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
“You walk in here without a can of sardines, nor gift, nor bowl of beans, not even a glass of water to offer somebody who is aiming to give you a free hand to the thing you come for. And you don’t even know if you gonna hit the bull’s-eye on that or not. You is like most white men. You believes you is entitled to something you ain’t got no hand in. Everything in the world got a price, mister.”
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
