Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 42

She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed.
Helen Oyeyemi
Anger is action without thoughts.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I'm always angry about the death of people who are still alive, their eyes are opened, yet they can't see anything...the spell of ignorance
Michael Bassey Johnson
A little inhumanity does not describe you as heartless, rather, it is a way of telling others that you have a heart that can get angry.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Whenever i see someone fighting me for no reason, I'm always highly impressed that God has instigated his anger against me, just as he did to pharoah against the Israelites, so as to cast me away into my promise land of fulfilment.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I opened my louvres and looked at Comfort, walking in the heavy rain, crying bitterly. I heard mom saying, Anywhere you want to go, you can, but don't come back again to this house. Comfort was beautiful, but her stealing attributes brought reproach on her and painted her beauty with dark impressions. I looked at her, walking barefooted on the muddy ground congested with rain water.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Mother said, haven't you seen older boys of your age, that you should take your rotten hands and play with my son's penis? I held my mouth, and i really stiffled a giggle. Now i understood the bloody vexation and the reckless act performed by our housegirl. She was fondling my infant part, and i knew she was horny and lost in the act.
Michael Bassey Johnson
You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.
Michael Bassey Johnson
God's anger is the toil and suffering of man. Man's anger is the love and worship of his enemy.
Michael Bassey Johnson
We tend to think that God doesn’t struggle with mundane things like frustrations and anger. But one of his major points of frustrations is WHEN there is no man to stand for justice, fairness and equity
Sunday Adelaja
When two persons are too close, they fall apart.
Michael Bassey Johnson
This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.
Helen Oyeyemi
Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home
Fela Durotoye
Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall Apart? Ifemulu asked, wishing she had not told Ranyinudo about Dike. She was angrier with Ranyinudo than she had ever been, yet she knew that Ranyinudo meant well, and had said what many other Nigerians would say, which was why she had not told anyone else about Dike's suicide attempt since she came back.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
They never said “I don’t know.” They said, instead, “I’m not sure,” which did not give any information but still suggested the possibility of knowledge.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks and gait, but mostly from bearing and demeanor, that fine-grained mark that culture stamps on people. (Chapter 17)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
She had come to understand that American parenting was a juggling of anxieties, and that it came with having too much food: a sated belly gave Americans time to worry that their child might have a rare disease that they had just read about, made them think they had the right to protect their child from disappointment and want and failure. A sated belly gave Americans the luxury of praising themselves for being good parents, as if caring for one's child was the exception rather than the rule.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Any nation that wishes to enjoy the fruits of development and civilization, must follow the golden rules of this scripture as a national policy and culture.
Sunday Adelaja
Just like today, the Protestants and their teachings had to fight with the prevalent order of the day which taught that: Work is only for making profit. Make money with minimum effort. The culture of the day viewed work as a burden to be avoided. The secular world of the time taught that you should do no more than what was enough for good living.
Sunday Adelaja
Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected.
Sunday Adelaja
In my opinion, one of the answers to the question of underdevelopment of nations, is in the CULTURE of DIGNITY OF LABOR.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is armed robbery and theft becomes the order of the day.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour
Sunday Adelaja
What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People don’t believe that hard work is worth it.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.
Sunday Adelaja
I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK.
Sunday Adelaja
For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation.
Sunday Adelaja
It is the culture that makes the difference. When there is no internal transformation, there cannot be external progress and development whatsoever.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is Our young people look for quick answers and solutions
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing.
Sunday Adelaja
Our government, media houses, schools, must focus on creating a new culture in our society. A culture of work. A culture of labour. A culture of diligence. A culture of hard work. A culture of perseverance. A culture of persistence. A culture of DIGNITY OF LABOUR.
Sunday Adelaja
Having the kingdom culture is establishing kingdom lifestyle on earth
Sunday Adelaja
Culture and holiness must be made compatible in the environment of the kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
We could help the pulpit to understand that the miracle centered gospel is letting our values and culture down.
Sunday Adelaja
A miracle focus culture is propagating wickedness.
Sunday Adelaja
Miracle centered gospel brings about the culture of indolence and insolence upon the country.
Sunday Adelaja
Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes.
Michael Bassey Johnson
No victory without war. No prize without price. No winning without contest.
Ikechukwu Joseph
Bad friends are those who make you cry.Good friends are those who understand why you're crying.Best friends are those who do everything to stop you from crying.
Asi Wudu
There is always a worthwhile price for discovery. Discover who you are. Know yourself.
Sesan Kareem
We keep hoping in God while reality keeps knocking at our door.
Shina Charles Memud
What do you want, Mary Foxe? My husband?" “I believe in him," she said slowly. I wondered if she’d ever told him that, and if so, what he had to say about it. Someone you made up turns around and tells you they believe in you— what response could you possibly make? The scenario is just plain weird. And really kind of impertinent on her part, too. If it happened to me I think I’d be speechless for the rest of my life.
Helen Oyeyemi
Brethren, you won’t believe what I discovered. I found out that in every place, people listened to the message (the shift our churches need) with full attention and total bewilderment. The question that I kept on hearing was: “why are other Christian ministers not doing the same thing?
Sunday Adelaja
If we will just believe and act accordingly, all circumstances and situations, no matter how hopeless they appear, would change.
Sunday Adelaja
Believe everything the Word says about you
Sunday Adelaja
God’s principles work whether we believe them or not.
Sunday Adelaja
Baptism in the Holy Spirit belongs to them that believe and are not of this world
Sunday Adelaja
What alarms me most is the fact that, even when God has now raised up a voice to speak on these issues, many sincerely believe that I am in error or at worst that I am doing something utterly wrong
Sunday Adelaja
It is time for us to move on to our promised land!!! It’s time to begin to believe that with God on our side we can build a prosperous nation and continent
Sunday Adelaja
It’s time to begin to believe that with God on our side we can build a prosperous nation and continent.
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t focus on miracles, believe and be strong in eternal virtues like miracle.
Sunday Adelaja
A person who does not believe in victory and who always doubts will never finish anything
Sunday Adelaja
Your victory depends on how much you believe in God’s power
Sunday Adelaja
Pray not only for your disciples but for all who believes in you
Sunday Adelaja
That they believe in you does not make them your disciple
Sunday Adelaja
We don’t just believe that God is real, but in tough circumstances we believe that he knows the way out
Sunday Adelaja