The Memory of the Ogisi Quotes

“This cycle of death and oppression does not persist because we fail to learn from it. But because we are each of us monsters born into gardens, and we all fear being thrust into the harshness of the desert.”
― Moses Ose Utomi, The Memory of the Ogisi

“That night, and many after, he prayed for understanding.

And The Ogisi answered his prayer.

With silence.”
― Moses Ose Utomi, The Memory of the Ogisi

“There is a loneliness that comes from being alone; there is a loneliness that comes from being with others.”
― Moses Ose Utomi, The Memory of the Ogisi

“Only by learning can you free us.”
― Moses Ose Utomi, The Memory of the Ogisi

“The cruelty of forgotten transgressions. The cruelty of children absolved of the sins of their parents but never disinherited from their plunder. The cruelty was an evil inscribed into history, so that those who came afterward would know nothing else.”
― Moses Ose Utomi, The Memory of the Ogisi

“History was a story with no ending.”
― Moses Ose Utomi, The Memory of the Ogisi

“Evil didn’t change. The evil of yesteryear was no different from the evil of today,”
― Moses Ose Utomi, The Memory of the Ogisi

“Tears are precious, my Agba,” she said. “Save them, that you may give them to your enemies.”
― Moses Ose Utomi, The Memory of the Ogisi

“Losing sight of another’s humanity was the seed from which all cruelty grew.”
― Moses Ose Utomi, The Memory of the Ogisi

“By then, the Aleke was well practiced in accusing his own people of treachery.”
― Moses Ose Utomi, The Memory of the Ogisi

“Trust is the only coin that doubles when spent. Spend generously.”
― Moses Ose Utomi, The Memory of the Ogisi

“Agba stiffened before melting into him, yielding, for a moment, some of the weight he carried through the world. Ethike accepted the burden for what it was—a gift. There is no finer gift an adult can receive than a child unburdening their strife.”
― Moses Ose Utomi, The Memory of the Ogisi

“Even deserts have a beginning. Even gardens have an end. Even water has a story.”
― Moses Ose Utomi, The Memory of the Ogisi