Femi Osofisan Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Beauty makes all women vulnerable to the greed of men

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

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.

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

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