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Nuruddin Farah
81 quotes
“The way things are, the secondary cannot take place until the first has taken place, but the first cannot continue in total ignorance of the second”
Nuruddin Farah (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“my interpretation of my work is as valid as that of any other reader, as every reader brings to the text his or her own experience.”
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“it is the African leaders I blame for, time and time again, not sorting out the problems internally”
Nuruddin Farah (born 1945) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Nuruddin Farah May 2000
“I convince myself that I’m new to writing, that I am doing it for the first time, in the hopes of producing something completely, absolutely different”
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“I approach writing as though it were a game that I play alone, in a room by myself”
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“Writing, as a profession, is tedious, not very enjoyable. Nor is it highly appreciated, nor understood”
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“I continue having faith in the world I know as an exile, and I will continue writing about a country in which I cannot live, in a language that’s not my first tongue”
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“It is not the man, it is the system that creates the man”
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“We become replicas of the tyrant whom we hate”
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“What happens when you rid yourself of the monster? You become a monster.”
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“A woman who is trampled on, who is unable to speak her mind is not worthy of becoming a character in a novel written by an ambitious writer who thinks he or she knows what he or she is doing”
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“All societies are horrid to women, just awful”
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“Listening is a faculty lacking in many people, more specifically among men and among dictators”
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“When you listen, you arm yourself against your enemy”
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“It is small-minded to be too arrogant or to think you know enough”
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“If you listen, you won’t need to pull out a gun”
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“am hoping that peace will become more fashionable in my country”
Nuruddin Farah (born 1945) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nuruddin Farah by Kwame Anthony Appiah 1 April 2004
“The greater benefit that I received from my presence in India for four years is the patience towards work, is the communal commitment that people have towards one another, and the fact that India as a subcontinent contains the world!”
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“As long as I have lived somewhere in Africa, I didn't consider myself in exile. It's only when I lived outside the continent”
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“To understand a society, you have to have many different writers writing about it, so that each author gives you . you know . covers a certain territory”
Nuruddin Farah (born 1945) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reflecting back, projecting forward: A conversation with Nuruddin Farah 2020
“A lot needs to be done for us to promote the healthier aspects of our culture and to exploit the potential that is there”
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“Culture, when approached with a more progressive secularity serves as a well-rounded, less limited and less limiting way and not when we approach it from a narrow-minded, constrictive manner”
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“I am forever indebted to the Somali oral tradition”
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“the Somali oral literature will remain the poor cousin to the written tradition until we organize the recording and dissemination of it via the technological media that are available to us”
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“My feeling is that any text written with informed African sensibility belongs to African literature.”
Nuruddin Farah (born 1945) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: INTERVIEW WITH NURRUDIN FARAH 18 January 2018
“Our people do not comprehend writing because they do not understand the value of writing. This ignorance, however, is not their fault”
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“The marathoner who has not yet arrived at the finish line, though he can see it, cannot say that he has achieved his goal”
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“I am not a European, I am a Pan-Africanist”
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“To the young people of the new generation, I would advise them to also be the forerunners of future generations”
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“In the condition of the colonized there is no choice in the working language”
Nuruddin Farah (born 1945) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ali Ahad interviews novelist Nuruddin Farah 8 December 2024
“The marathoner who has not yet arrived at the finish line, though he can see it, cannot say that he has achieved his goal”
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