Uzodinma Iweala

Uzodinma Iweala (born November 5, 1982) is a Nigerian-American author and medical doctor.

Uzodinma Iweala in 2008

Quotes

Beasts of No Nation (2005)

• I am fearing because I am seeing that the only way not to be fighting is to die. I am not wanting to die.
  • Agu

• 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 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 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.
  • Agu

• 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.
  • Agu

• And now the woman is praying to God... I am laughing laughing because God is forgetting everybody in this country.
  • Agu