Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o said this quote

“ In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to confirm a choice already made. The decision to lay or not lay your life for the people lies in the heart. The oath is the water sprinkled on a man's head at baptism ”

Famous Quotes of Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o

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Written words can also sing.

~ Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o

Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o Inspirational Writing

Truth never dies.

~ Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o

Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o Faith Principles Truth

What Waringa tried hard to avoid was looking at the pictures of the walls and windows of the church. Many of the pictures showed Jesus in the arms of the virgin Mary or on the cross. But others depicted the devil, with two cow-like horns and a tail like a monkey's, raising one leg in a dance of evil, while his angels, armed with burning pitchforks, turned over human beings on a bonfire. The Virgin Mary, Jesus and God's angels were white, like European, but the devil and his angels were black.

~ Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o

Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o Inspiration Point Of View

As she stared at them, Waringa noted that their skins were indeed red, like that of pigs or like the skin of a black person who has been scalded with boiling water or who has burned himself with acid creams. Even the hair in their arms and necks stood out stiff and straight like the bristle of an aging hog.

~ Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o

Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o Inspiration Point Of View