Quotes from Ferdinand Oyono

Life...is like the chameleon, changing colour all the time.

Je serai le boy du chef des Blancs: le chien du roi est le roi des chiens.

I will be the chief European's boy. The dog of a king is a king of dogs.

He is the kind of man we call mahogany trunk because the trunk of the mahogany tree is so strong that it never bends in a storm. I am not a storm. I am the thing that obeys.