Nice Quotes

Jomo Kenyatta

(20 October 1892?–22 August 1978) African social activist and politician; the first Prime Minister (1963–1964) and first President (1964–1978) of an independent Kenya; born Kamau wa Ngengi, he was baptized John Peter in 1914, later changing his name to Johnstone Kamau, and finally to Jomo Kenyatta.

,,When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the Land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible."

Chinua Achebe

(born November 16, 1930) is a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic. His first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), is the most widely read book in modern African literature.

,,The white man is very clever. He came quietly with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American author, poet, and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about race and gender. She is best known for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple (1982) for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

“It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom.”

Quotes out of the book

,,I spend my wedding day running fro the oldest boy. He twelve. His mama died in his arms and he don’t want to hear nothing bout no new one.  He pick up a rock and laid my head open. … So after I bandage my head best I can and cook dinner-they have a spring, not a well, and a wood stove look like a truck – I start trying to untangle hair. … By ten o’clock I’m done." (Alice Walker; 2003; 36) 

,,Harpo want to know what to do to make Sofia mind. He sit out on the porch with Mr.____. He say, I tell her one thing, she do another. Never do what I say. Always backtalk. … You ever hit her? Mr___ ast. … Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have got to let’em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do that better than a good sound beating." (Alice Walker; 2003; 36)

,,He beat me today cause he say I winked at a boy in church." (Alice Walker; 2003; 5)

,,I don’t write to God no more. I write to you. What happen to God? ast Shug. …

Yeah, I say, and he give me a lynched, a crazy mama, a lowdown dog of step pa and a sister I probably won’t ever see again. Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. … She say, Miss Celie, You better hush. God might hear you. Let’im hear me, I say. If he ever listened to poor colored women the world would be a different place, I can tell you." (Alice Walker; 2003; 193)

,,Here’s the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it." (Alice Walker; 2003; 196)

Walker, Alice: The Color Purple, First Harvest edition 2003,