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It is sickness that man can cure, not death
The Gods Are Not To Blame (1968)
Large-faced, burly hunk of choice meat and big bones. He is affluently attired although with a touch of the bumpkin.
When a man's beard is on fire, he does not worry about whose axe is sharp.
Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again (1999)
Some people have started gathering in groups with people of their own kind. That too must stop
It is not changing into the lion that is hard, it is getting the tail of a lion
The Gods Are Not To Blame (1968)
Two rams cannot drink in the same bucket at the same time. They will lock horns.
The Gods Are Not To Blame (1968)
Barber’s arm stops in mid-air. It trembles visibly. Man throws his arms up triumphantly. Starts scooping money into his pocket.
Me an Ijekun man, a stranger in your tribe [stares at CHIEFS] when crocodiles eat their own egg, what will they not do to the flesh of a frog.
The Gods Are Not To Blame (1968)
Have I been sleeping? If so, I am sick in the head: for only a madman would go to sleep with his roof on fire.
The Gods Are Not To Blame (1968)
If you think like a tortoise you can plot against me without my first cutting you down with my own tortoise tricks, then, fellow, madness is in your liver.
The Gods Are Not To Blame (1968)
He picks up a comb from the table, blows dust and loose hair off it. But as he leans forward with the comb to dig into Man’s hair, Man jerks his head backwards, dodging the Barber’s contact. Barber’s hands halt in mid-air, himself startled.
Apprentice barber is sitting on the stool. Nothing to do, he is leafing through the pages of some tattered newspapers…all of which report on Talks – all spices of Talks…On the bench at the other side of the shop the Master Barber himself lies full length, face heavenwards asleep…
Everything really depends on our vote…any vote cast for a politician tomorrow on the basis of sheer fatherhood by birth; or of brotherhood by clan; or sisterhood by religion, is your doom and my doom.
My people. Children of our fathers. Sickness is like rain. Does the rain fall on one roof alone? No. Does it fall on one body and not on another? No. Whoever the rain sees, on him it rains. Does it not? It is the same with sickness.
The Gods Are Not To Blame (1968)