Quotes from Beasts of No Nation

“I am fearing because I am seeing that the only way not to be fighting is to die. I am not wanting to die.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, quote from Beasts of No Nation

“so we were playing all this game then and thinking that to be a soldier was to be the best thing in the world because gun is looking so powerful and the men in movie are looking so powerful and strong when they are killing people,but I am knowing now that to be a soldier is only to be weak and not strong, and to have no food to eat and not to eat whatever you want, and also to have people making you do thing that you are not wanting to do and not to be doing whatever you are wanting which is what they are doing in movie. But I am only knowing this now because I am soldier now.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, quote from Beasts of No Nation

“I am waiting outside in the darkness making myself ready for when I go in. So I am thinking as many good thing I can think because if you are thinking good thing, nothing bad is happening to you.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, quote from Beasts of No Nation

“I am remembering the soldier who are coming to my village and I am holding my machete closer. I am liking how it is feeling in my hand, like it is almost part of my body.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, quote from Beasts of No Nation

“Si j'étais le soleil, je chercherais un autre endroit pour illuminer, un endroit où les gens n'utiliseraient pas ma lumière pour faire des choses horribles.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, quote from Beasts of No Nation

“I'm walking walking walking to where the sun is setting. I'm looking at it and wanting to catch it in my hand and to be squeezing until color are dripping out from it forever. That way everywhere it is always dark and nobody is ever having to see any of the terrible thing that is happening in this world.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, quote from Beasts of No Nation

“Je suis toutes ces choses. Toutes ces choses, mais j'ai déjà eu une mère, et elle m'aimait.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, quote from Beasts of No Nation

“And now the woman is praying to God............... I am laughing laughing because God is forgetting everybody in this country.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, quote from Beasts of No Nation

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