Eubie Character Analysis in A Brief History of Seven Killings

Eubie is the head enforcer of the Storm Posse in New York. Highly intelligent, he grew up in an affluent suburb in Kingston and went to private school. In New York, he even began studying at Columbia Law School before dropping out to devote himself to drug dealing full-time. He is thus distinguished as the one character who is in the drug game simply because he wants to be, not because of a dearth of other options. Eubie has fully assimilated into American culture. Although he is friendly and polite to Josey’s face, he secretly plots to take out Josey and become the don of the Storm Posse in New York himself. He also orders John-John K to kill Weeper. At the end of the novel, Eubie and his crew imprison Alex in his own home, shoot him in the foot, and force him to make edits on his essay series for The New Yorker at gunpoint. Eubie’s paradoxical way of thinking is illuminated by the fact that he berates Alex for representing Monifah Thibodeaux in an unflattering light, when it was Eubie’s gang who supplied drugs to Monifah and ultimately killed her.

Eubie Quotes in A Brief History of Seven Killings

The A Brief History of Seven Killings quotes below are all either spoken by Eubie or refer to Eubie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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- Like how your boy Weeper is a user.

- Weeper sniffing coke from as early as '75, that not nothing new.

- But new it is, Josey. Now him smoking crack and you and me know that crack is not coke. Can a man do good business even when him deh pon coke? Of course. Every man me know in the music biz a lick coke. Hookers and blow them call it, my youth. Back then the biz did even have a sort of class. But crack is different business. Every single dealer who switch from coke to crack mash up. You can’t hold a single thought on crack. You can't do no fucking business. Crack is you business.

Related Characters: Josey Wales (speaker), Eubie (speaker), Weeper

Related Symbols: Cocaine

Page Number and Citation: 551

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Eubie Quotes in A Brief History of Seven Killings

The A Brief History of Seven Killings quotes below are all either spoken by Eubie or refer to Eubie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

).

- Like how your boy Weeper is a user.

- Weeper sniffing coke from as early as '75, that not nothing new.

- But new it is, Josey. Now him smoking crack and you and me know that crack is not coke. Can a man do good business even when him deh pon coke? Of course. Every man me know in the music biz a lick coke. Hookers and blow them call it, my youth. Back then the biz did even have a sort of class. But crack is different business. Every single dealer who switch from coke to crack mash up. You can’t hold a single thought on crack. You can't do no fucking business. Crack is you business.

Related Characters: Josey Wales (speaker), Eubie (speaker), Weeper

Related Symbols: Cocaine

Page Number and Citation: 551

Explanation and Analysis:

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