"Arrow of God" Quotes
A Nigerian village chief clashes with the colonial powers, his own people, and the deities he serves.
fiction | 244 pages | Published in 1986
Quotes
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
Nonsense and power are the necessary ingredients for a successful war, Lord, and as the one did not need it for any other purpose, he used it for that.
A man who pays respect to the great paves his own way for greatness.
The death that will kill a man begins as an appetite.
The world is full of people who could have retired rich and happy half a century ago but are still chasing dollars.
Children do not despise the clay before knowing how it was made, so why should anyone despise another?
A man may deceive himself at any time, but he was the only beast that could not smile.
To be a woman in our homeland is to forget your history, to give up everything, to bury yourself in a man.
As the fish cannot live without the sea, so the sea cannot exist without the fish.
A bastard has no right to refer to others as illegitimate sons of a dog.
