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Quotes from Black Moses (Petit Piment) — Alain Mabanckou

born 1966

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5 quotes

The sweetness of honey does not soothe the bee sting.

Black Moses (Petit Piment) (2015)

A fly’s not a bird just because it can fly.

Black Moses (Petit Piment) (2015)

Singing in the old-fashioned language of this good-hearted man, who sold us Hope at the lowest possible price

Black Moses (Petit Piment) (2015)

I want to cry now, not later! I want to be the first because if I cry after the others how will we know that I cried too?

Black Moses (Petit Piment) (2015)

When the white people came to Africa, we had the land and they had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed: when we opened them, the white people had the land and we had the Bible.

Black Moses (Petit Piment) (2015)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alain Mabanckou (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.