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Quotes from Women of Owu — Femi Osofisan

born 1946 Nigeria

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54 quotes

"It is the rulers who write story - It is the hunters who compose the story of the hunt - It is the revellers, not the slaughtered cows, who record the fable of the feast."

Women of Owu (2006)

Home is where every traveller returns after a journey, however long. When night falls, the visitor must take his leave of his hosts.

Women of Owu (2006)

An artist has only his dreams. He has no power.

Women of Owu (2006)

"The fault is not just with the rulers, the fault is with all of us anyway."

Women of Owu (2006)

I was very happy that an African was winning it for the first time.

Women of Owu (2006)

"I like to subvert the proscenium wherever I go."

Women of Owu (2006)

It is the fate of the conquered to toil for the strong! That is the logic of war, the logic of defeat!

Women of Owu (2006)

Anyone can kill. But it is not everybody who can forgive, or who can be just, as I know you are.

Women of Owu (2006)

Happiness is a fake. The gods employ it as a mask to trick us each time they are about to plunge us into grief.

Women of Owu (2006)

Writing is what makes a writer. What changes, however, is the subject matter or the mode and the tools of writing.

Women of Owu (2006)

Even in misfortune, which levels everyone, the potions are unequal: we dare not tell you what we believe will becoming to us. [

Women of Owu (2006)

"When Mother Goat nods at the sonorous sound of the drum, she is not dancing! It is because each time it sounds, she recognizes the wailing of the leather!"

Women of Owu (2006)

"Insanity is the drug of misery."

Women of Owu (2006)

"I wanted to do something about that. The kind of women I knew would feature in the plays."

Women of Owu (2006)

Beauty makes all women vulnerable to the greed of men

Women of Owu (2006)

"I started writing seriously in the 1970s."

Women of Owu (2006)

"Your freedom as an artist is somewhat curtailed. Curtailed, I said, however not compromised, for I will not allow that. Never."

Women of Owu (2006)

I lit the torch so I will not have to grope my way to the camp where I shall be married to my enemy, that handsome butcher of our people.

Women of Owu (2006)

"We need to break the circles of colonialism. But at the same time, that was a man of genius. I think it's possible to teach Shakespeare without necessarily becoming subservient to the colonial."

Women of Owu (2006)

Some words are such that when we hear them, all the light inside us dies at once, and our smiling daylight turns into the bleakness of night.

Women of Owu (2006)

Attribution

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