Quotes from Amos Tutuola

We had sold our death to somebody at the door for the sum of £70:18:6d and lent our fear to somebody at the door as well on interest of £3:10:0d per month, so we did not care about death and we did not fear again.

But when the fire was about to quench, their children came with whips and stones then they began to whip and stone our heads; when they left that, they began to climb on our heads and jump from one to the second; after that they started to spit, make urine and pass excreta on our heads; but when the eagle saw that they wanted to nail our heads, then it drove all of them away from the field with its beak.

When we traveled for two and half days, we reached the Deads' road from which dead babies drove us, and when we reached there, we could not travel on it because of fearful dead babies, etc. which were still on it.

The hawk plays with the pigeon and the pigeon is happy, but not knowing that it is playing with death.

There is no chance for other matter in the stomach of a hungry person.

A cruel man cannot change another man's destiny.

A tormentor forces his victims to be hardy.

A tortoise's shell is a house of the poverty and if the tortoise is taken to the wealthy town, it will still be living in its house of poverty.

Then, frighteningly, he said, 'But as you are a man, how are you going to deliver your pregnancy? This is a big problem for you.

Truths are failed to sell in the market but lies are purchased with high price without pricing it.

The rope of the truth is thin but there is nobody who can cut it; the rope of lie is thick as a large pillar but it can be cut easily into a thousand pieces.

I had forgotten that things might change in future and that promise was a debt.