Femi Osofisan Quotes

War never ends, but only moves to another place?

Nowadays, when the strong fight the weak, it's called a Liberation War to free the weak from oppression.

It is the fate of the conquered to toil for the strong! That is the logic of war, the logic of defeat!

It is the rulers who write story - It is the hunters who compose the story of the hunt - It is the revellers, not the slaughtered cows, who record the fable of the feast.

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

When fate decided to strike you down, what amount of crying can help?

I lit the torch so I will not have to grope my way to the camp where I shall be married to my enemy, that handsome butcher of our people.

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

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

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

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

I ask you- without a shrine, without worshippers, what is a god?

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.

My daughter, you won't like to hear this but my advice is- do like the reed in the bush. Stand and strut in good weather. But when it storms, learn also to bend.

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