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"Houseboy" Quotes
"Houseboy" by Ferdinand Oyono is a satirical novel that chronicles the experiences and disillusionment of Toundi, a young African boy working as a houseboy for a French colonial administrator in Cameroon.
Quotes
I had become a man — but what sort of man?
The white man had given each of us something to be proud of.
I was a boy, but the white men called me 'boy' as if I was a child.
The sun was setting, and with it, my dreams.
In my heart, I was crying tears of blood.
I knew that I was only a shadow of a man.
Life seemed like a cruel joke played by an unkind God.
The laughter of the white man was like the crack of a whip.
I felt as if I was drowning in a sea of despair.
The silence of the night was filled with the cries of my heart.