Femi Osofisan Quotes

All your shrines drenched in the blood Of your worshippers/All your sacred symbols wiped out by fire!

The gods! Which gods! Do you still trust any of them after this? Or have you quickly forgotten what they told us about Anlugbua just now? No, women, there is no shelter anywhere but in ourselves! Each of us has become our own god.

War never ends, but only moves to another place?

Nowadays, in the new world, it is suicide to be weak.

Anyone can kill. But it is not everybody who can forgive, or who can be just, as I know you are.

Anger and desire are twin sisters in this drama we call love, two kernels in the same nut!

When you have lost a war, you have lost, and there's nothing you can do about it but accept the consequences.

Even in misfortune, which levels everyone, the potions are unequal: we dare not tell you what we believe will becoming to us. [

Some words are such that when we hear them, all the light inside us dies at once, and our smiling daylight turns into the bleakness of night.

Don't speak like that, my child. Death is sweet, we think. But it is easier to talk of it, than to welcome it. We do not know what is on the other side, whether it is better or worse than here. Whereas even at its most bitter, life offers hope at least, which death does not.

The gods are out to punish human beings who she claims 'learn only from suffering and pain.

Let no one count herself lucky till she finds herself on her death bed.

When Mother Goat nods at the sonorous sound of the drum, she is not dancing! It is because each time it sounds, she recognizes the wailing of the leather!

Home is where every traveller returns after a journey, however long. When night falls, the visitor must take his leave of his hosts.

Then the deer must train themselves to seize the gun from their hunters! The cows to take over the narration of their own story.