Daily Inspiration Quote by C. L. R. James

A line like this lands because it sounds casual while quietly detonating a whole set of expectations. “I may as well say it” is the key: a conversational shrug that signals reluctance, maybe even boredom with the confessional ritual, before slipping in a fact that society tends to treat as either scandal or soap opera. The bluntness of “three times” does double duty. It’s an admission and a rebuke: if you came looking for a tidy legend or a pure political saint, you’re in the wrong room.

For C. L. R. James, whose public life was built on intellectual authority and revolutionary seriousness, the move matters. He’s not performing glamour or remorse; he’s asserting normal human complexity in a culture that often demands moral simplicity from its thinkers. The subtext is: don’t mistake my ideas for a monastery. James spent his life analyzing power, class, and empire; here he’s acknowledging another kind of structure that organizes people’s lives - marriage - and doing it with the dry economy of a reporter.

There’s also strategy in the phrasing. By naming the “three times” himself, he controls the narrative and drains it of gossip’s oxygen. It’s a preemptive strike against biographical reductionism: you don’t get to turn my personal life into the explanatory key for my politics, because I’ll tell you the fact and refuse to make it melodrama. The intent is not confession; it’s boundary-setting, with a faint, knowing edge.