Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Quotes

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

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

There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.

Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.

We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

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

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: "Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison."

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

It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

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

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.