Arrows of Rain Quotes

“Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.”
― Okey Ndibe, Arrows of Rain

“To know is sometimes good, but to have the wisdom to accept what you cannot know is better.”
― Okey Ndibe, Arrows of Rain

“What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead.”
― Okey Ndibe, Arrows of Rain

“a story that must be told never forgives silence”
― Okey Ndibe, Arrows of Rain

“A wise man sleeps with his eyes and keeps his ears awake.”
― Okey Ndibe, Arrows of Rain

“The death that kills a puppy first blinds him. The headstrong who won’t listen will finally obey the summons of the death mat. The housefly who has nobody to advise it follows the corpse into the grave.”
― Okey Ndibe, Arrows of Rain

“A story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth’s debt to a story”
― Okey Ndibe, Arrows of Rain