Committed Quotes by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

I think a repressive regime always fears people who are awakened - particularly ordinary people. If they are awakened, I think governments all over…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“Words are the food, body, mirror, and sound of thought. Do you now see the danger of words that want to come out but…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“There was a time when slavery was good. It did its work, and when it finished creating capital it withered and died a natural…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language. So…

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“As she stared at them, Waringa noted that their skins were indeed red, like that of pigs or like the skin of a black…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o