Jamaican Author Quotes

“In the Ghetto, life is meaningless, death is glory, and to fear people (neygah) is the beginning of wisdom. Selah”
― Crystal Evans, Jamaican Acute-Ghetto-itis: Jamaican Sociological Commentary

“Writing is therapeutic,
Ultimate Catharsis…
Venting tool.
Exploring a world on your own terms…”
― Crystal Evans, Tall Dark and Bad IV

“One of my perceived weaknesses is that I am not a confrontational person. I am not bellicose and belligerent. I am not quarrelsome and warlike and people who are like this, loud and vulgar and toxic think they are strong and people like me are weak. Go around spewing venom and vitriol. Bullies think calm people are weak.

But they don’t know where my strength lies.
Everything that I am is born out of this quiet, humble and pacific nature.

Bullies only set themselves up as targets.
Bullies don’t do self work.
Bullies aren’t introspective.
Bullies are too busy trying to cower others down and point fingers.
Bullies don’t make peace, they don’t want peace, peace confuses them.
Bullies can’t walk alone.
Bullies thrive in groups.
They need cheerleaders.

I am almost always alone…”
― Crystal Evans, The Country Gyal Journal

“People wonder how even in a current state of heartache, disappointed and depression, I still move on without people who don’t benefit me.
Necessity is the rule of intention. I’ve mastered it. Be intentional in everything you do.”
― Crystal Evans, The Fairy Tale Complex

“There will always be women less than and greater than me. I can’t live my life to be in competition with every woman. I don’t want to hate femihood. I don’t want to sabotage it either. I don’t want to hate myself. Yes there will be women more beautiful, sexier, desirable, smarter than I am. But I am me. Uniquely me.”
― Crystal Evans, Tall Dark and Bad : Full Edition

“Your best moment where you are praised have to be maintained by the unwritten condition of you doing something greater or as good as the last time. Everything in life is conditional .”
― Crystal Evans, The Fairy Tale Complex

“For future reference…
Treat me as a story teller /business woman and celebrate me as such.
But never as a person that you know very well…
Not just me.
Others too.”
― Crystal Evans, The Fairy Tale Complex II

“What is my cheat code… ?
The more you know about yourself, the more easier it is to discern what is for you and what isn't..
and knowing who you are changes how you react to anything.
You know your limits, you anticipate failures and setbacks, you overcome blockades and obstacles.
It's a cheat code of unlimited uses.
Then people wonder how you bounce back from shit that would have crippled others.
I have a cheat code, it is that I know how I am and what I want and what I can do none of that is contingent on anyone or thing.”
― Crystal Evans, Tall Dark and Bad : Full Edition

“I think about the Jay Z and DMX scenario and I think DMX could learn from Jay Z. He could have been the next billionaire like Rihanna … I don’t know, everyone who has been around Jay Z is rich today.”
― Crystal Evans, Legal Choppings : 100 Business Ideas for Jamaicans

“When I was younger, I didn’t want to listen to logic because I keep telling myself I know everything.
Turns out I knew nothing.
You will learn you know nothing from only experience. To understand that I don’t know as much as I think I know is something only time would tell… time tells your everything … in due time.”
― Crystal Evans, Legal Choppings : 100 Business Ideas for Jamaicans

“So I see people mocking my usage of patois… or Jamaican creole which is a form of pidgin created from Afrikaan, Spanish and English languages. This is a Jamaican page by a Jamaican author. The person in the video is Jamaican. It’s common for people to think English is an indication of intelligence albeit only 20% of the world’s population speaks English and only 5% are native English speakers. I mean English itself is a creole of sorts with words from Celtic, Slavic and Latin languages..

Smartest people in the world are Asians (Chinese, Japanese and Indians) their native languages are Hindi, Mandarin and Creole Cantonese. Swahili and Igbo are big creole languages in Africa.

Linguistic discrimination is not even warranted based on how languages are developed.

Glottophobics are as bad as racist with their linguicism.
English is just a superstrate language due to Anglo- Saxon colonization and the British empire…

English is still a superstrate because of large English speaking populations such as America, England, South Africa, Nigeria and Canada.”
― Crystal Evans, Jamaican Patois Guide

“The way a relationship dies between a man and I has always been insidious of sorts. It’s like sometime last year or a few years before. The love develops gangrene. The man either doesn’t love me or care enough to apply antidote to prevent further decay. So it decays. Before he knows it. The love is dead and I’ve already buried us. The thing with gangrene is if I seek treatment, I can only stop it from spreading by cutting the gangrenous part off. Like the love I once felt for him. I am now confused. But you get the drift.”
― Crystal Evans, 100 Dating Tips for Jamaican Women

“I take a very long time to let go of a man.
Why?
Because I am one of those types that lead by my ego and not my heart.
I don’t think women lead by their hearts.
I think they make decisions whether to stay or leave based on ego.

Women have bigger egos than men.
Women don’t leave men because of heart break. They leave men when their egos are bruised. When he does something that shatters her pride and make her feel exposed… like she feel like it’s apparent and everybody know he doesn’t rate or love her.

It’s the same reason why a man will cheat and a woman stays with him once he makes it clear that her position has not been altered or usurped. Same goes for having an outside kid.

He kept her ego in tact.
She will ride on that ego until she is so ashamed of his behavior.
Until she finds his actions so reducing and minimizing.

Then her pride won’t allow her to stay… with him anymore.”
― Crystal Evans, 100 Dating Tips for Jamaican Women

“There is a marked difference between brilliance and intellectuality.
Some of us use both words interchangeably to describe people who can use big words.
A number of people are grandiloquent but not wise.
A person can be verbose but not esoteric.
Just as literacy does not equate to intelligence.


There are two types of learnt people in the world.
Some persons are scholars and others are alchemist.

Let me further my thesis on intellectuals.
Now you have a scholar and an alchemist.
The scholar passes exams, memorizes words and phrases, the alchemist has the intellectual prowess to start a whole new fundamental truth, discipline and school of thought because they can create concepts from their own minds without no external inputs.
Alchemist pass exams without studying because they just know how things work or they use context clue.
For that reason not every smart person is a genius.

Alchemist use their brains to change or improve the world with ingenuity and originality.

The alchemist has a way with words, when they speak you stop and listen. The alchemist is witty in any language (Creole or patois).
Let’s renounce the colonial concept that using Anglo-Saxon words is a mark of intelligence.

Eg.
Kartel speaks English- Kartel intelligent yuh fawk.”
― Crystal Evans, Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis

“Being the recipient of unrequited love gave me an insight into how people might feel or think who are not that into me.
It made me realize it’s best to let go of a person that doesn’t really want me.
I keep thinking how I feel about the person that likes me and I can’t reciprocate, is exactly how an individual who doesn’t want me feels about me.
RSS SSS
I can’t shake it.
I don’t want to be around anyone that feels that way about me.
A point I explored in my Yakima book.

I think objection of my affection feels the same way about me like I do the person I don’t really like and it’s an overall sickening feeling.

I felt disgusted and I repelled the person who liked me and when I was around them, I wanted them to leave. I tolerated them because I didn’t want to hurt them but I secretly pitied them.

I wish they would move on and find someone to love them and leave me alone.
The more they tried, the more suffocated I felt and imprisoned.
I wanted what I wanted and I didn’t care.
It’s just not you and I don’t know how to change that.

No amount of good treatment from them or logic made me change my mind about the way I felt about him.
It wasn’t him.
That’s finale.

Here is a more twisted part of the story.
When he did, I wish they still loved me but only on my terms when I wanted to see them, when I had time for them. When I could tolerate it.
It’s not that I don’t want him to love me.
I only wanted it when I want it.
Not all the time.

Through unrequited love, l've gained a deeper ... understanding of the importance of mutual interest in relationships. l've learned to acknowledge when someone's enthusiasm isn't reciprocated and to release connections that lack genuine investment. I empathize with those who experience unrequited love, just as I do with the person who admires me without reciprocation. This insight has empowered me to prioritize authentic connections and explore the complexities of love in my Yakima book.”
― Crystal Evans, Yakima

“It would seem that my hypothesis on linguistic intelligence being paraded as “brightness” went viral. In my country , a number of persons who have mastered the English language have discredited my intellect on the basis of grammar and linguistics. My thesis did underscore that true intellects can create new disciplines, theories and “synthesize” fundamental truths and concepts. True intellects have high social, emotional and intelligent quotients. They operate at a higher cognitive order because they are able to underpin foundational knowledge along with comprehension and thus develop complex ways of thinking. They have higher cognitive skills and functioning. A true intellect can move their audience in any language be it patois or English because their usage of words and delivery always resonates with the listener and reader. Their output makes you think, wonder, say … wow, I’ve never looked at it that way before. It doesn’t involve gloating or conceit. Pure complex yet revolutionized reasoning and speaking.”
― Crystal Evans, Jamaican Acute-Ghetto-itis: Jamaican Sociological Commentary

“I've tried to hold space for change... even that for me felt like i was forcing, forcing myself to accept something I wasn't comfortable with. Love makes us act strange..and excitement can feel like pressure and passion can feel like obsession..so best to just sit back calmly..and let them do what they need to do. Then i forced myself to eventually to do the same.”
― Crystal Evans, The Bunna Man Trilogy

“If a guy is more committed to a process end game that signals “not you” than he is to winning your affection then he doesn’t want you.
Simpler terms. If when you fall out he can go weeks or months without speaking to you.
Yet when you were on good terms he could not commit to seeing you and speaking to you every day. He didn’t like you.
If he is more committed to the process of cutting you off than he was trying to gain your affection.
He doesn’t like you.”
― Crystal Evans, 100 Dating Tips for Jamaican Women

“A man trying to convince me to accept terms I am not interested in:
Me: Sir I am trilingual, I speak English, Spanish and I understand sign language.
This is a sign that it ain’t gonna work.”
― Crystal Evans, 100 Dating Tips for Jamaican Women

“A childhood scar is not a birth mark”
― Crystal Evans

“No contact is not for the other person. It’s for you. It’s a form of discipline, character development and test of resilience… ♥️♥️♥️ I’ve done it more than times than i would want to… each time me come out emotionally stronger. It’s crazy… it’s liberating actually ”
― Crystal Evans, The Bunna Man Trilogy

“One of the things that I discovered while writing the Hi-Man book, and something I believe is also endemic to my communities, and to me personally from my own experience, is this: when you are the smartest person in any environment, it can actually be dangerous. You also learn very quickly that stupidity, in its numbers, is not only prevalent but also endangers you.

It is a very fickle and unpredictable environment, one where the tribe rules over the individual. It’s almost like a reverse engineering of game theory, where you can’t advance at all because the equilibrium remains the same: there are simply too many factors working against you.”
― Crystal Evans