Ngugi Wa Quotes
Collection of top 24 famous quotes about Ngugi Wa
Ngugi Wa Quotes & Sayings
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If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry.
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.
— Louise Erdrich
Unshed tears of an unrequited desire for vengeance are exhausting and require privacy.
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Surely my mother could do anything to which she set her mind
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Never forget the way you pulled closer - wanting it to feel like my heart was beating inside your chest.
— Colleen Hoover
I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.
— Jeremy Northam
A task is a burden only when it has not been tackled.
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
For literature, all the world is a stage.
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Prescription of the correct cure is dependent on a rigorous analysis of the reality.
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
But I am thinking like a lover, or like an ass: which I suppose is pretty nearly the same.
— Charles Dickens
Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and a carrier of culture
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner.
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Are you ... a time traveler? Alien?" She shot him a crooked smile. "Unexpectedly hitching a ride in a blue police call box?
— Elizabeth Hunter
Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
For I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language could reveal the secret of life.
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Written words can also sing.
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Your own actions are a better mirror of your life than the actions of all your enemies put together.
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
with me,it is 'better never than late
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
Being is one thing; becoming aware of it is a point of arrival by an awakened consciousness and this involves a journey.
— Ngugi Wa Thiong'o