Matigari ma Njiruungi

Matigari ma Njiruungi is a 1986 novel by author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Quotes

• Their blood mingled with the soil, and they became patriots, ready for the armed struggle to come.

• • (Narrator, page 4)
• There is no night so long that it does not end with dawn."

• • (Matigari, page 11)
• So a handful of people still profited from the suffering of the majority, the sorrow of the many being the joy of the few?"

• • (Matigari,Page 12)
• "A child belongs to all, that a nation's beauty was born in a child, a future patriot..."

• • (Matigari, page 48)
• My hands are the surest title-deed there ever was. What other deed do you need that is greater than the blood that I shed?"

• • (Matigari, page 50)
• Too much fear breeds misery in the land."

• • (A woman in the woods, page 87)
• how can the present conditions continue when foreigners, be they from Europe or America, can always get places on which to pitch their tents? Tents in which to hide their military gadgets? Tents in which to store the wealth stolen from us?"

• • (Crowds, page 79)
• Democracy here means, first, fending for oneself."

• • (The student, page 90)
• there are people who reap benefits from singing the approved tune, those who dance in step with the approved dance."

• • (The teacher, page 92)
• Justice for the oppressed comes from a sharpened spear."

• • (Matigari, page 131)

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