Quotes by Cameroonian Authors

The issue is not that you are wearing buckets of make up. The real problem is how does the inside look
Sahndra Fon Dufe
A land is precious, but ours is to be revered.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Life...is like the chameleon, changing colour all the time.
Ferdinand Oyono
I’ll be as loving as you will be, as stubborn as I know you are, as passionate as I’m thankful you are and as supportive and understanding as I’ve known you to be. You are my best friend and I love you
Danielle-Claude Ngontang Mba
The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
At that moment my shyness and anxiety all flooded back and I took a few steps back, and then sank to the ground; crouching, overwhelmed, covering my face. ‘What will he think? What if he already hates me? Maybe I was wrong in the first place? Maybe he didn’t like me at all.’ No matter how much I tried, I wasn’t able to produce a single positive thought to counter my panic. I wasn’t able to take a deep breath and relax. This day had been too eventful. I began to shake furiously, afraid of what was to come. ‘He hates me! He hates me!’ I thought over and over. Hot tears began to fall down my cheeks and I squeezed my eyes trying to stop them. My breathing quickened. What was I doing? I had said what I wanted, proudly, trying to be something to him but here I was: a total mess.‘What kind of a confession ends in a panic attack? GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!’ I thought furiously, my efforts rewarded with futility. The world started to spin, my mouth becoming numb for reasons I couldn’t understand, almost as if to prevent me from panicking aloud. As if I had the friggin’ courage.
Anja Owona Okoa
The masses often let themselves down and even those at the forefront who are hoisting the flag of the cause that is intended to alleviate their miseries.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Even though I didn’t originally buy it for you, because like an idiot I avoided your feelings like the plague, I hadn’t noticed until now that it wasn’t the lucky price that had drawn me to it, but the colour of it.” I heaved a deep breath, preparing myself. I remembered the last time I had said something so cheesy, and how he had laughed but I continued anyway, before my shyness could take over.“Hurry up, before you start regretting.” The taxi man had said. And I did.I looked him square in the eyes, blushing so furiously I was sure even my dark skin wouldn’t hide it. He met my gaze, somewhat shyly, which was a rare sight. “So I’ve decided to give this necklace to you as a symbol for what I realised today. The colour is green, like your… uh, like your eyes… and your eyes are my kryptonite.” I mumbled, looking at him into the eyes right until the end, until his face turned completely red and his jaw dropping so low I was sure it almost hit the counter, his eyes sparkling, wide with shock.
Anja Owona Okoa
I AM NOT about making movies that would be forgotten. I want to make ONLY timeless classics. I don't care if it takes me ten years
Sahndra Fon Dufe
You don't wish me well when you tell me the sky is my limit. You bind me within its realm. I prefer to hear that I am my limit, not the sky, because beyond our sky lays the moon, the sun, the milky way, other universes and the possibilities are limitless.
Sahndra Fon Dufe
The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines
Sahndra Fon Dufe
Life sure gives us serious lessons, but I refuse to sit down and take notes. I can pretty well do that walking!
Marie Abanga
There is no playing safe with me any longer. I only take huge risks. I know this means I can lose big time, but so long as there is a chance that I will win big time, I will take it
Sahndra Fon Dufe
Its regurgitation in newspapers of record and blogs of repute would be another reminder why the American society as a whole could never be call itself highbrow, why its easy availability of of stories on the private lives of others was turning adults, who would otherwise be enriching their minds with worthwhile knowledge, into juveniles who needed the satisfaction of knowing that others were more pathetic than them.
Imbolo Mbue
There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.
Patrice Nganang
If the moon faerie became like the sun faerie, there would be eternal day and if the sun faerie became like the moon faerie, it would be pitch dark. Therefore you balance each other out. Do you see?
Anja Owona Okoa
one bothers oneself for nothing.
Mbella Sonne Dipoko
I live for my death. While it is important how you perceive me now, It is more imperative how generations to come would perceive me
Sahndra Fon Dufe
In your spare time, google the ingredients in all the foods you are eating. If you care about yourself, you may change your menu
Sahndra Fon Dufe
What I care about is what I care about. What you care about is what you care about. So let's add the planet to that list
Sahndra Fon Dufe
And yet, despite this portrait of a self assured woman, Cindy seemed to have a near obsession with being where everyone was and doing what everyone was doing.
Imbolo Mbue
Home is supposed to be a place of security, the last resort of refuge.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
…reality is the make-believe of the majority that can only thrive in conformity.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
It's the fear that kills us, Leah," Jende said. "Sometimes it happens and it's not even as bad as the fear. That is what I have learned in this life. It is the fear.
Imbolo Mbue
Life is so sweet even though it is full of lies and half truths...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Unsettling emotions are capable of messing up the most beautiful minds in this world.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
the depth or humaneness of our love depends on the wideness of our souls.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Why do we complicate life, when it was meant to be very simple?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
You can’t say you love man as an individual if you have not dealt with the person’s complex personality, his or her unfamiliar habits, disturbing impulses and biological makeup.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest
Sahndra Fon Dufe
A true businessperson should also be a true humanist who understands that he stands to gain the most in a world that is stable for those he deals with, even if they do not fare as well as he does.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Son, it is bad for a man to be condemned by his children, more so by the sons he cherishes.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Isn’t materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
These quasi-faithful are growing in strength. They are the fundamentalists today, and they abound in all the religions.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Politicians like the effect of alcohol because it makes them feel important.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Grief, my friend, forces us to search our souls and find answers to issues that constrain us from becoming better human beings.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Faith goes hand in hand with the belief in a supreme purpose that includes everybody, a purpose that is for mankind’s ultimate peace, harmony and happiness.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
We love out of compassion, passion or a sense of commitment.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...Past joys and achievements give us the outlines of how to get to a state of happiness again. That memory is a treasure that can never be taken away. At least we know where we were, what we have lost, what we miss and what more to add to our experiences.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
… a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...Hope is a ridiculous failing that we need to harbour in order to lead a serene life…
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...No reformer is worthy of the name if he fails to be the ultimate pacesetter in his own reform drive...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...The people’s hero does not only have to be someone in possession of the scepter of power. It can be anyone capable of giving unity, prosperity, security, peace and a sense of worthiness to his people. Such a figure gets elevated to the status of a revered hero with the human touch if he imparts a sense of oneness on a multi-racial, multi-ethnic and multi-religious group; especially a diverse people who have been fighting one another for years and centuries...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...An ethnically heterogeneous society without a unifying hero is bound to be torn apart by internal strife. Only a man capable of bringing about a workable consensus between the diverse people is truly a hero. Such a man has to be a true disciple of peace, unity, solidarity and justice.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest....
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...There is no worse way to abuse a man’s patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
...At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...
Janvier Chando
There is no worse way to abuse a man’s patriotism than to estrange him from his homeland, be it his ancestral or adopted land...
Janvier Chando
...Realization is born from error...
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
…the purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up
Sahndra Fon Dufe
Lies and partial truths complicate life.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando