Quotes by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

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Another phenomenon developing in Kenya is ethnic cleansing – and that’s the thing that has made me very sad. Because some people will use the cover of the problems of rigged elections to do things that are unacceptable like ethnic cleansing and displacement of people. It’s completely unacceptable.

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Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

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Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

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I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened – particularly ordinary people. If they are awakened, I think governments all over the world feel uncomfortable about that; they want to be in control. They want to be the ones telling people: “This is what we have done in history” but when people begin to say, “No this is what we have done in history” it’s a different thing.

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I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

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I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

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Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

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Of course it’s very, very important for me to feel Kenya, to feel, every day, this is where images come from. So to be taken away from that by political pressure or other means – one is taken away from the area, which is the basis of inspiration – is difficult.

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Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow […] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes

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Quotes by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

I’m more trying to connect; I’m more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

I’m writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

Of course it’s very, very important for me to feel Kenya, to feel, every day, this is where images come from. So to be taken away from that by political pressure or other means – one is taken away from the area, which is the basis of inspiration – is difficult.

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