21 Quotes by Tayeb Salih

We teach people in order to open up their minds and release their captive powers. But we cannot predict the result. Freedom - we free their minds from superstition. We give the people the keys of the future to act therein as they wish.

He is no towering oak tree with luxuriant branches growing in a land on which Nature has bestowed water and fertility; rather he is like the sayal bushes in the deserts of the Sudan, thick of bark and sharp of thorn, defeating death because they ask so little of life.

I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.

أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل

I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.

Everyone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.

I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

How strange! How ironic! Just because a man has been created on the Equator some mad people regard him as a slave, others as a god. Where lies the mean? Where the middle way?

You are entitled to wonder and to doubt – you’re free.