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Quotes from A Meeting In The Dark — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

1938–2025 Kenya

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Soon everyone will know that he has created and then killed.

A Meeting In The Dark (1974)

Then the white men had come, preaching a strange religion, strange ways, which all men followed. The tribe's code of behaviour was broken.

A Meeting In The Dark (1974)

Stay well, Son. Go well and in peace, Mother.

A Meeting In The Dark (1974)

Different! Different! Puu! They are all alike. Those coated with the white clay of the white man’s ways are the worst. They have nothing inside.

A Meeting In The Dark (1974)

Look, Sister,You know I want the boy to grow in the Lord.

A Meeting In The Dark (1974)

Why not marry her? She is beautiful! Why not marry? Do I love her or don't I?

A Meeting In The Dark (1974)

Well – yes – no. I mean, nowhere in particular.

A Meeting In The Dark (1974)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.