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Ola Rotimi
37 quotes
“It is not changing into the lion that is hard, it is getting the tail of a lion”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kolanut last long in the mouths of them who value it.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the chameleon brings forth a child, is not that child expected to dance? As we have made you King, act as King.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the rain falls on the leopard, does it wash off its spots? Has the richness of kingly life washed off the love of our King for his people?”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My people. Children of our fathers. Sickness is like rain. Does the rain fall on one roof alone? No. Does it fall on one body and not on another? No. Whoever the rain sees, on him it rains. Does it not? It is the same with sickness.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is sickness that man can cure, not death”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To get fully cured one needs patience. The moon moves slowly but by daybreak it crosses the sky.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from tree to tree without falling.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The horns cannot be too heavy for the head of the cow that must bear them.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Until the rotten tooth is pulled out, the mouth must chew with caution.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the frog in front falls in pit, others behind take caution.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You do me great wrong, therefore to think that, like a rock in the middle of a lake, forever cooled by flowing waters, I do not know, and cannot know the sun's hotness that burns and dries up the open land.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have I been sleeping? If so, I am sick in the head: for only a madman would go to sleep with his roof on fire.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now my people, when trees fall on trees, first the topmost must be removed.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Me an Ijekun man, a stranger in your tribe [stares at CHIEFS] when crocodiles eat their own egg, what will they not do to the flesh of a frog.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The hyena flirts with the hen, the hen is happy, not knowing that her death has come.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you think you can drum for my downfall, and hope that, drum will sound, then your head is not good.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you think like a tortoise you can plot against me without my first cutting you down with my own tortoise tricks, then, fellow, madness is in your liver.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your highness, if you think to have heavy suspicion is wisdom, then your head is not well.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Two rams cannot drink in the same bucket at the same time. They will lock horns.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you rise too early the dew of life will soak you.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man who cannot control his wife is like a chief who cannot control his subjects.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a man's wife is mad, the whole town knows, but when a man is mad, only his wife knows.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A madman is like a child, he speaks the truth without knowing it.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a man's beard is on fire, he does not worry about whose axe is sharp.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man who has no respect for his wife is like a farmer who has no respect for his farm.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Me fight am sojar for Lugard. 1901, we take am Kontagora. West Africa Frontier Force. Me dey 1902 we take am Bauchi, go Borno. Lugard telli me...(patting himself on the back) 'Good man, good man!' 1903 - we take am Kano, take am Sokoto. Lugard make am me Corpul-one rope...”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What's the man so proud about, fighting to advance British imperialism in Africa? And the two of you sitting there, encouraging such vulgar memories... From the day the White man set foot on our shores! First, Rum to our fathers: to confuse their minds. Then Rifles to shoot ourselves. The aftermath? Ruin. Slavery and external ruin!”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some people have started gathering in groups with people of their own kind. That too must stop”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Multi-lingual interpretation is done concurrently among members of the group [the characters], but in subliminal whispers.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He says it's not that we don't want to be alive.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Apprentice barber is sitting on the stool. Nothing to do, he is leafing through the pages of some tattered newspapers…all of which report on Talks – all spices of Talks…On the bench at the other side of the shop the Master Barber himself lies full length, face heavenwards asleep…”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poverty has also endeavoured to enlist the usefulness of a hook-up wooden radio and a standing fan - albeit a scrawny and temperamental oddity.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Large-faced, burly hunk of choice meat and big bones. He is affluently attired although with a touch of the bumpkin.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He picks up a comb from the table, blows dust and loose hair off it. But as he leans forward with the comb to dig into Man’s hair, Man jerks his head backwards, dodging the Barber’s contact. Barber’s hands halt in mid-air, himself startled.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Barber’s arm stops in mid-air. It trembles visibly. Man throws his arms up triumphantly. Starts scooping money into his pocket.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything really depends on our vote…any vote cast for a politician tomorrow on the basis of sheer fatherhood by birth; or of brotherhood by clan; or sisterhood by religion, is your doom and my doom.”
Ola Rotimi (1938–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source