Ferdinand Oyono Quotes

But for me, it is more than mourning. I have died my first death….

All these people who pretended they had come to grieve with Meka were just dogs.

The elephant does not rot in a secret place.

"Son of a dog," he said to me, "where is your master?"

There are two worlds," said Baklu, "ours is a world of respect and mystery and magic. Their world brings everything in the daylight, even the things that weren't meant to be.

Today, Father Vandermayer came back from the bush. He has brought five women with him. It seems they are Christians that he has taken away from their polygamous husband. Five more boarders for the Sixas. If they knew the work there is waiting for them here, they would have stayed behind with their husband.

I thought I had married a man, a real man… instead I married an arse-full of shit. My Children, my poor children – sold like the Lord who was sold by Judas…

Our ancestors used to say you must escape when the water is still only up to the knees.

Get up, you pig! Where are your papers? Where have you come from? What are you doing fucking around here?

He let me go. Through the darkness I saw his white hands move in a gesture of disgust as if he had touched something unclean.

I was alleviated by this discovery. It executed something within me … I realized I ought to never be startled of the Commandant again.

I shall be the Chief European's boy. The dog of a king is a king of dogs.

He had not remembered me. How might he remember me? All Africans appear to be identical to them. ”

Fuck off out of here! Go on get out of my hut!

The Commandant trod on my left hand. He was talking to Madame at the time and he went on talking as if he hadn't noticed. He managed to bring his foot down while I was off my guard, giving his boots a final polish before he went out. He has no memory and no imagination. He forgets he has already tried this on me and it did not make me cry out. As the first time he just walked on without looking round but this time he went jauntily like a man who feels pleased with himself.