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Quotes from Death and the King's Horseman — Wole Soyinka

b. 1934

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Is there now a streak of light at the end of the passage, a light I dare not look upon?

Death and the King's Horseman (1975)

When they get this way there is nothing you can do. It's simply hammering against a brick wall.

Death and the King's Horseman (1975)

Then I slowly realised that your greatest art is the art of survival. But at least have the humility to let others survive in their own way.

Death and the King's Horseman (1975)

This market is my roost. When I come among the women I am a chicken with a hundred mothers.

Death and the King's Horseman (1975)

Because he could not bear to let honour fly out of doors, he stopped it with his life. The son has proved the father Elesin, and there is nothing left in your mouth to gnash but infant gums.

Death and the King's Horseman (1975)

You know this business has to be stopped, Simon. And you are the only man who can do it.

Death and the King's Horseman (1975)

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

Death and the King's Horseman (1975)

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