Ola Rotimi Quotes

Have I been sleeping? If so, I am sick in the head: for only a madman would go to sleep with his roof on fire.

Poverty has also endeavoured to enlist the usefulness of a hook-up wooden radio and a standing fan - albeit a scrawny and temperamental oddity.

He says it's not that we don't want to be alive.

Me fight am sojar for Lugard. 1901, we take am Kontagora. West Africa Frontier Force. Me dey 1902 we take am Bauchi, go Borno. Lugard telli me...(patting himself on the back) 'Good man, good man!' 1903 - we take am Kano, take am Sokoto. Lugard make am me Corpul-one rope...

A madman is like a child, he speaks the truth without knowing it.

Until the rotten tooth is pulled out, the mouth must chew with caution.

When a man's wife is mad, the whole town knows, but when a man is mad, only his wife knows.

Some people have started gathering in groups with people of their own kind. That too must stop

Kolanut last long in the mouths of them who value it.

Barber’s arm stops in mid-air. It trembles visibly. Man throws his arms up triumphantly. Starts scooping money into his pocket.

Multi-lingual interpretation is done concurrently among members of the group [the characters], but in subliminal whispers.

If you think you can drum for my downfall, and hope that, drum will sound, then your head is not good.

Your highness, if you think to have heavy suspicion is wisdom, then your head is not well.

When the rain falls on the leopard, does it wash off its spots? Has the richness of kingly life washed off the love of our King for his people?

Now my people, when trees fall on trees, first the topmost must be removed.