Cyprian Ekwensi Quotes

He looked out of the window, as if the interview gave him some pain, and for a moment I studied him silently.

He looked over his shoulder, like a thief entering a strong room, and his voice sank low.

We want a new life, new opportunities ... We want to live there for some time -- but only for some time ! We have our homeland here and must come back when we can answer your father's challenge ! When we have done something, become something!

....Tonight, one of you is going to win the hand of my daughter Zarah. But he must be the bravest of you all. We live in times when a man’s might is his right.

But now things are different. Yes, things are gradually passing into African hands. Soon al the power will be in our hands. It's worth fighting for.

Not a war. But then, it was a war. When the forest burns do the locusts stop to say goodbye?

On the day of death, there is no medicine.

....I was born sixty-five years ago, at a time when man was man, and women were won by those who deserved them.

How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.

Night might convert the old devil into a fiend.

I say there has been a war. If a fish comes out of the water and says the crocodile has one eye, who has been there with him?

He who waits will see what is in the grass.

A maiden is one of those things a man must not trust. By Allah, it is!

I wish I could tell you my story…I feel you would understand”…. to a stranger he met fortuitously on the train and for two days had travelled with in silence

can you hear me now? I shall not rest, for I shall know no peace until I have avenged you.