Clever Black > Quotes

“It's a lot to being a gangster, Harold,” Sam replied. “If it's not in you, it's not in you. Everybody can't be a gangster; but just because a person chooses not to be one, it doesn't mean that he, or she, doesn't have it in them. A family person will hurt or kill you just as quickly as a street gangster would. Remember, gangsters don't have nothin' to lose, so getting killed, or killing somebody would mean nothing. On the other hand, a family man has a lot to lose, his kids, his wife, his family, so he'd kill someone to protect his family—or he'll die trying. Two different men fighting for the same purpose—the survival of him and his family. Which one's the real gangster?”
― Clever Black, The Holland Family Saga Part Two: Undying Love

“family, one is lost.”
― Clever Black, The Holland Family Saga Part Two: Undying Love

“It is said that many a great disaster has been caused not by one big event, but a series of small ones. Those seemingly insignificant problems tend to compound themselves, though. Alone, they mean nothing, but together, small problems can trigger big events that can have devastating and irreparable consequences and repercussions.”
― Clever Black, The Holland Family Saga Part One: They Don't Mind Dying

“You can’t fuck with gangsters, without having to deal with the consequences that come with fucking with gangsters,”
― Clever Black, The Holland Family Saga Part Twelve: Crying For Blood

“Bill and Monica showed us that shit. If the President gone get head in the Oval Office, what ya' think a nigga on the street gone do?”
― Clever Black, The Holland Family Saga Part One: They Don't Mind Dying

“what is green and goes up and down?”
― Clever Black, The Holland Family Saga Part Two: Undying Love

“Koko Taylor,”
― Clever Black, The Holland Family Saga Part Twelve: Crying For Blood