Death and the King's Horseman Quotes

“We cannot see
The still great womb of the world -
No man beholds is mother's womb -
Yet who denies it's there? Coiled
To the navel of the world is that
Endless cord that links us all
To the great origin. If I lose my way
The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.”
― Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman

“I have no father, eater of left-overs.”
― Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman