John Kiriamiti

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 My Life in Crime (1984) 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 External links My Life in Crime Category:Non-fiction authors from Kenya Category:People charged with crimes Category:1950 births Category:Living people