Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow [...] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's Popular Quotes

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language. So we're talking about…

- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in pr…

- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised - so it's no lo…

- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened - particularly ordinary people. If they are awakened, I think governments all over t…

- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a co…

- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o