Binish Fatima > Binish's Quotes

“If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Language as culture is the collective memory bank of a people's experience in history.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

“For literature, all the world is a stage.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening

“It's terrible when the old have to bury the young. But it is more terrible when neither the old nor the young are there to bury each other.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow

“The bullet was the means of the physical subjugation. Language was the means of the spiritual subjugation.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature

“Written words can also sing.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Dreams in a Time of War

“Stories, like food, lose their flavor if cooked in a hurry.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow

“A heart has no shape, no limits. That's why you can put almost any kind of thing in it, why it can hold so much. It's much like your memory, in that sense.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police