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

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If a novel is written in a certain language with certain characters from a particular community and the story is very good or illuminating, then that work is translated into the language of another community - then they begin to see through their language that the problems described there are the same as the problems they are having. They can identify with characters from another language group.

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

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

- 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

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