Okey Ndibe Quotes & Sayings

Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's something they don't forgive. And every American carries a gun. If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot. — Okey Ndibe

To move Nigeria forward, we must define our interest in the Nigeria project — Okey Ndibe

The First Month of the Buhari Presidency has been far, far from inspiring — Okey Ndibe

that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny. — Okey Ndibe

What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead. — Okey Ndibe

wash off the journey — Okey Ndibe

To know is sometimes good, but to have the wisdom to accept what you cannot know is better. — Okey Ndibe

A story that must be told never forgives silence. — Okey Ndibe

A wise man sleeps with his eyes and keeps his ears awake. — Okey Ndibe

Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story. — Okey Ndibe

The white man knows many things," the other whispered back, "but he doesn't know how to tell a good lie. — Okey Ndibe

A true expert, instead, was one who understood a subject well enough to make its most intricate concepts accessible to a novice. The — Okey Ndibe

You wrote words with your hand, but your mind wiped me away. — Okey Ndibe

In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-human mediators of loneliness and solitude. — Okey Ndibe

May we not die premature deaths; instead, may our troubles be limited to pangs of hunger. A man with life will find food to put in the stomach. If death doesn't kill the penis, it soon eats bearded meat. — Okey Ndibe

in a postmodern world, even gods and sacred objects must travel or lose their vitality; any deity that remained stuck in its place and original purpose would soon become moribund. — Okey Ndibe

Winter, I wrote, was akin to living inside a refrigerator. — Okey Ndibe