"Season of Migration to the North" Quotes

The world is like a reed, the wind in the desert. It is there today and gone tomorrow.

The present is only an infinitesimal part of time.

I didn't want to be 'the African' in Europe. I didn't want to be 'the black man' in America. I wanted to be myself.

Our smiles were open and true, our laughter was open and honest.

The desert was a universe, the mountains a world, the sea an ocean. I was aware of an infinity of space.

I wanted to be lost in the crowd, to be nobody and everybody.

The English said they were going to civilize the Sudan. But all they did was make the Sudan into a brothel.

I felt as if I were a bird that had been released from its cage and was flying in the sky.

I would rather have been born a woman in the Sudan than to be a man in Europe.

I was a stranger in a strange land. And I was a stranger to myself.