20 quotes
"Without money I can't find him. Money is everything in Sologa."
The Voice (1964)
"It is bad money. Bad money never brings good to anyone."
The Voice (1964)
"A dead man's shadow has entered this house."
The Voice (1964)
"I have already told you. Be sensible and be a good lad. This country will need men like you, if only you learn to shut your eyes at certain things."
The Voice (1964)
"I have not the big thing between us forgotten. You will of my doings hear concerning it."
The Voice (1964)
"Yes! He who touches me his fingers will burn. What is yours."
The Voice (1964)
"It was a great task I performed, my people. A great task in sending him away. A dangerous task, but it had to be done for the good of us all."
The Voice (1964)
"Speak of this thing no more. The ears of Amatu are opened. If this the ears of Izongo enters, we will fall from our jobs."
The Voice (1964)
"Even if a person inside water lets out gas, the odour floats up to the surface. You know not even this the saying of our Izon people?"
The Voice (1964)
"Amatu is lost, yes Amatu is lost."
The Voice (1964)
"Doesn't shame fall on your head, you man without chest, for saying you want to burn a woman's house down to the ground? If you are a male man be with a strong chest, come and take him."
The Voice (1964)
Chief Izongo proclamation after banning Okolo from the village. "Yes, they are singing with voices like a piece of earth, and drinking with throats that pick nothing, and shaking the world with their looking-at-nothing feet."
The Voice (1964)
The thing is I don’t think about death. I know it will come.
"So the town of Amatu talked and whispered; so, the world talked and whispered. Okolo had no chest, they said. His chest was not strong and he had no shadow. Everything in this world that spoiled a man's name they said of him."
The Voice (1964)
Okolo is depicted almost as an abnormal person. "Listen not to him. He speaks this way always because he passed standard six. Because he passed standard six his ears refuseth nothing, his inside refuseth nothing like a dustbin."
The Voice (1964)
"You must leave this town. It will pain our insides too much to see you suffer. We are a soft people and even now if you agree to join us, we untie your hands and you will have no need to knock your head against stone as you are doing."
The Voice (1964)
Let me start on why I started writing. I can't give any definite answer apart from the fact that I felt the urge to write.
One of Ukule's claims denies manhood's existence in society. "I am Chief Izongo. My name, like the wind, has entered everybody's ears. And people know me as one who always does the straight thing and that is doing what has come out of my mouth."
The Voice (1964)
Tuele feels disappointed because of the corrupt government. "If in this world we can recreate ourselves, I would become a man. When I die, I will return as a man, I will continue to be a man but not a cripple."
The Voice (1964)
"He says the money paid them by Izongo is bad money and that he, too, like Okolo will speak. Only he says the time is not correct yet."
The Voice (1964)