Palm Wine Drinkard Quotes

#1. I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is a kind of fantasy of West African mythology all told in West African English which, of course, is not the same as standard English.

William Golding

#2. If there's ever been a dark moment in my life ... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.

Gloria Estefan

#3. The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Theodor Reik

#4. To appreciate the power of epidemics, we have to abandon this expectation about proportionality. We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow from small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen very quickly.

Malcolm Gladwell

#5. Be glad that you can recognize [your madness], for you will thus avoid becoming its victim.

C. G. Jung

#6. Your task is to conquer yourselves, not ships, lands and castles. This battle is the one in which you especially are to 'come off conqueror.' It is fought every day. In fact, it is a continuing process which commenced a long, long time ago.

Neal A. Maxwell

#7. My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.

Jessica Pare

#8. If the key to life is figuring yourself out; family must be the lock.

LDarnell

#9. I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.

Taylor Cole

#10. Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Robert E.Lee

#11. Divination is a mirror, reflecting what is here and here," Kezia would tell her, pointing to Nettie's heart and head. Nettie nodded like a solemn student.

"Whatever the cards show you, always trust the words that well inside you. The truth is waiting to be heard. Never doubt it.

Gwendolyn Womack