Femi Osofisan Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

No swimmer, however good, can swim beyond the rim of the world.

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

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!

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

It's us, not the gods, who created war. It's us, we human beings, who can kill it.

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

An artist has only his dreams. He has no power.

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.

[T]he skin that graces the king's shoulders, the leopard knows who supplied it. 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!

How can you claim to be strong, when your minds are so feeble.