- I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In
other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a
tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the
skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated... there.
- Janheinz Jahn (trans. Oliver Coburn and Ursula Lehrburger) A History of Neo-African Literature (London: Faber, 1968) pp. 265-6.
- Explaining, in Berlin in 1964, a criticism of the concept of négritude he had made at a conference in Kampala in 1962.
- The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.
- The Man Died (New York: Harper & Row, 1972) p. 13.
- There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only
one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul
of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world
leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose
world will give us shelter?
[T]he PDP, on whose platform he stands, represents the most
harrowing of this nation’s nightmares over and beyond even the horrors
of the Abacha regime. If he wishes to be considered on his own merit,
now is time for him, as well as others similarly enmeshed, to exercise
the moral courage that goes with his repudiation of that party, a
dissociation from its past, and a pledge to reverse its menacing future.
We shall find him an alternative platform on which to stand, and then
have him present his credentials along those of other candidates engaged
in forging a credible opposition alliance.
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