Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo

Citas

• “Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb.”

• “As long as he did not know the truth, he could interpret the story in the only way that gave him hope: the coming of black rule would not mean, could never mean the end of white power.”

• “A big lump blocked Mugo’s throat. Something heaved forth; he trembled; he was at the bottom of the pool, but up there, above the pool, ran the earth; life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful; only for a moment; how dared he believe in such a vision, an illusion?”

• “Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry.”

• “It's terrible when the old have to bury the young. But it is more terrible when neither the old nor the young are there to bury each other.”