I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

- Tayeb Salih

Everyone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.

- Tayeb Salih

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and…

- Tayeb Salih

I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are man…

- Tayeb Salih

I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.

- Tayeb Salih

I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was tran…

- Tayeb Salih