Weep Not Child Quotes

“إن الرجل الأبيض يضع قانونا أو قاعدة يستولي بمقتضاها على الأرض ثم يضع قوانين أخرى للضغط على الناس بخصوص تلك الأرض وغيرها من الأمور التي لا توافق القبيلة عليها في أول الأمر... حتى إذا قام رجل ليعارض القانون الذي أباح انتهاك حرمة الأرض يأخذه أولئك الذين وضعوا القانون ليحاكموه وفقا لتلك القوانين الأجنبية... هل فيكم من يقول لي إن هناك من يمكنه أن ينتصر في قضية كهذه... حتى لو كانت الملائكة إلى جانبه؟”
― نغوغي وا ثيونغو, Weep Not Child

“إن اللون لا يصنع الرجل لأن هناك نوعا من الناس لا يريد لغيره أن يرتفع إلى مصاف أعلى من مصافه بصرف النظر عما إذا كان أبيض أم أسود ويريد هؤلاء الناس أن يكونوا وحدهم ينبوع المعرفة يقاسمونه من يقلون عنهم حظا ولكن نقطة نقطة.”
― نغوغي وا ثيونغو, Weep Not Child

“Blackness is not all that makes a man, Kamau said bitterly. There are some people, be they black or white, who don't want others to rise above them. They want to be the source of all knowledge and share it piecemeal to others less endowed. That is what's wrong with all these carpenters and men who have a certain knowledge. It is the same with rich people. A rich man does not want others to get rich because he wants to be the only man with wealth.”
― Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Weep Not Child

“No. He'll remain here. But - but - you sometimes get a feeling you're going away from someone forever...”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Weep Not Child

“Ngotho had never known where the other son had gone to. Now he understood. He wanted to tell of his own son: he longed to say, 'You took him away from me'. But he kept quiet. Only he thought Mr Howlands should not complain. It had been his war.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Weep Not Child

“Then he raised his voice and went on:
'Verily I say unto you. This generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled...'
It was as if darkness too had fallen into the building and there was no one to light the way.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Weep Not Child

“What's a state of emergency?' a man asked.
'Oh, don't ask a foolish question. Haven't you heard about Malaya?'
'What about it?'
'There was a state of emergency.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Weep Not Child