"at the waste, the uselessness of this sacrifice by people so poor. Just like the poor everywhere, I thought, who stint themselves the decencies of life in order to ensure themselves the decencies of death”"

"but a sign of identification with the humanity of those who had nothing and risked themselves."

"Make me normal. Make me whole. Make me like them. Make me worthy of life”"

"Learning the Queen’s English is like scrubbing off the bright red varnish from your toenails, the morning after a dance. It takes a long time and there is always a little bit left at the end, a stain of red along the growing edges to remind you of the good time you had.”"

"I imagine all this sounds rather feeble to you. I don't suppose you're someone who stands on the sidelines.'"

"I had the feeling that they were shocked, in a laconic fashion, by their own mistake, but that in the confusion of their anonymous dead they were helpless to put it right”"

"When the man and wife and little boy took the pet dog for a walk round the neighborhood streets they no longer paused to admire this show of roses or that perfect lawn; these were hidden behind an array of different varieties of security fences, walls and devices."

"(Chapter 1, Page 3)"

"And it was true that from that day on the cat slept in the little boy's bed and kept to the garden, never risking a try at breaching security."

"That night he buried it in the little clearing in the bush where the dead of the camp, including his own youngest son, were buried."

"Nothing puzzles God.""

"He had come out of the war with five inestimable blessings--his head, his wife Maria's head and the heads of three out of their four children."

"(The Voice of Darkness, Part 2, Chapter 10)"

"The farm hasn’t managed that for us, of course, but it has done other things, unexpected, illogical."

"Jonathan Iwegbu counted himself extra-ordinarily lucky.""

"There is no more light, there is no more weight, the darkness is no more. Feel how antagonisms do not exist""

"Of courses the doors and windows were missing and five sheets off the roof. But what was that?"

"A house and a car. Eventually some sort of decent position. Rehabilitated."

"The School Principal, (Part 1, Chapter 1)"

"The question is disturbing nevertheless. We reject the foreign school in order to remain ourselves and to preserve for God the place He holds in our hearts. But have we still enough force to resist the school, and enough substance to remain ourselves?""

"But it is also true that the spirit runs great risks when the hand is too strong""

"When the hand is feeble, the spirit runs great risks, for it is by the hand that the spirit is defended...""

"He had to be extra careful because he had seen a man a couple of days earlier collapse into near-madness in an instant before that oceanic crowd because no sooner had he got his twenty pounds than some heartless ruffian picked it off him.""

"(The Teacher, Part 1, Chapter 1)"

"The Knight (Samba Diallo's Father), Part One, Chapter 1)"

"A mother and father must never make any move that might jeopardize the opportunities they themselves have not been able to provide."

"As the weeks lengthened and still nobody could say what was what Jonathan discontinued his weekly visits altogether and faced his palm-wine bar.""

"The Diallobé country, helpless, was turning around and around on itself like a thoroughbred horse caught in a fire.”"

"The teacher thought that man had no reason to exalt himself, save definitely in the adoration of God. Now it was true—though he fought against the feeling—that he loved Samba Diallo as he had never loved any disciple. His harshness toward the boy was in ratio to his impatience to rid him of all his moral weaknesses, and to make him the masterpiece of his own long career. He had educated and developed numerous generations of adolescents, and he knew that he was now near death. But, at the same time as himself, he felt that the country of the Diallobé was dying from the assault of strangers come from beyond the sea. Before departing this life, the teacher would try to leave to the Diallobé such a man as the country’s great past had produced.”"

"people of another colour,” as the narrator calls them, are rioting in the townships outside the city ."

"In order to calm him, Samba asks him to speak of the “white man’s country”"

"part of themselves which weighs them down”"

"Your salvation, the presence of God living in you, depends upon yourself. You will obtain both these if, in mind and body, you rigorously observe His law, which religion has codified”"

"I reply that I don’t write children’s stories; and he writes back that at a recent congress/book fair/seminar a certain novelist said every writer ought to write at least one story for children. I think of sending a postcard saying I don’t accept that I ‘ought’ to write anything."

"no more could he avow the reason for his sudden withdrawal: the impossibility of enduring any longer the calm inquiry of those blue eyes which the girl had fixed on him since the first moments of their meeting”"

"“Paradoxically, all this suffering, and this rebellion of his body, aroused in the teacher’s mood a gayety which left him perplexed. Although he was bent in two with pain, he had trouble in remaining serious, as if the grotesque figure he was watching were not his own.”"

"world is being fused” and that all of humanity will share the same future"

"He made his chahâda wave like a banner in the wind!” (99)."

"“[t]each him to check the external”"

"the eternal mystery of death” as well as paradise"

"liberated” humanity from its “absurd fears”"

"this history has undergone an accident which has shifted it and, finally, drawn it away from its plan”"

"they turn their backs to the light, but they look at the shadow fixedly. Is it that this man is not conscious of his poverty?” ** page 71"

"He who wants to live, who wants to remain himself, must compromise"