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"A Grain of Wheat" Quotes
Set in a Kenyan village on the eve of independence, "A Grain of Wheat" intertwines the personal betrayals and sacrifices of several characters as they confront the costs of colonialism and the hope for a new nation.
Quotes
We cannot live forever in the shadow of the white man.
Perhaps it was the fear of what would come after independence that made some people betray their brothers.
Everybody thought of returning to the village as returning home.
He had learned that silence was as much a weapon as a gun.
A man is not a stone; he is not an island cut off from the others.
You must learn to forgive, even when your heart is heavy.
It is the heart that makes a man rich or poor.
There are wounds that never show on the body, that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
If you want to see tomorrow, you must leave the past behind.
History lives in us, whether we choose to remember or not.