Death and the King's horseman

"Look, just when did you become a social anthropologist, that's what I'd like to know” – Simon Pilkings,"

"This market is my roost. When I come among the women I am a chicken with a hundred mothers."

"Iyaloja, who is she? I saw her enter your stall; all daughters I know well."

"When they get this way there is nothing you can do. It's simply hammering against a brick wall."

"You know this business has to be stopped, Simon. And you are the only man who can do it."

"We don't want the eater of white left-overs at the feast their hands have prepared."

"Is there now a streak of light at the end of the passage, a light I dare not look upon?"

"Then I slowly realised that your greatest art is the art of survival. But at least have the humility to let others survive in their own way."

"First I blamed the white man, then I blamed my gods for deserting me. Now I feel I want to blame you for the mystery of the sapping of my will."

"Because he could not bear to let honour fly out of doors, he stopped it with his life. The son has proved the father Elesin, and there is nothing left in your mouth to gnash but infant gums."