Ray Anyasi > Quotes

“Drink my friends. You can never drink too much alcohol when you have drunk too much sorrow.” - Peter Kotara.”
― Ray Anyasi, Ujasiri

“These boys have no idea what a child’s play is, childhood is an endangered and fleeting phase of life for everyone around here.” –Christian Ezora.”
― Ray Anyasi, Ujasiri

“If you are building an army I should be your number one general,” –Lawrence Ottoise.”
― Ray Anyasi, Ujasiri

“I had once thought this was a third world problem. It is not. It is a politician’s mentality. A problem is only a problem if it has the immediate potential to stall the economy or contract the popularity of the administration.”
― Ray Anyasi, How to Terrorize Terrorism: a more effective answer to global terrorism

“This level of operational and organisational perfection for a body that has a scourge as unpredictable as terrorism to deal with is nearly utopian, but it is what GATA must strive to reach, a pursuit that must be written in its DNA.”
― Ray Anyasi, How to Terrorize Terrorism: a more effective answer to global terrorism

“I know it is a massive risk, I know. I could be killed. I have made up my mind that as long as the LRA have my son, JJ and there remains a drop of life in me, they shall always have me to deal with,” -Joseph Dahr.”
― Ray Anyasi, Ujasiri

“Samuel, wise is relative. Wise is listening to your heart and letting it decide what to do.” -Joseph Dahr.”
― Ray Anyasi, Ujasiri

“We are all brave men, but our bravery means nothing in the absence of our common sense…it becomes self destructive.” –Lawrence Ottoise.”
― Ray Anyasi, Ujasiri

“Though we never factor heart break into the plot of a romance, they happen all the same. It’s the cord break that is never written into the symphony. It’s the paint splash on canvass that’s never preconceived by the artist. At its worst, it’s that grand iceberg thousands of nautical miles away the Titanic maker did not foresee." Dami K. in To Live Again”
― Ray Anyasi, To Live Again

“He was a dying king of the universe and she was the witch inside whose mouth was the last drop of elixir available in the universe. Yes, either that or nothing else could explain the fierce manner in which he attacked her lips”
― Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise

“GATA must be willing to bind where terrorist organisations loose and loose where terrorist organisations bind. Anywhere there is an internal conflict, especially if there is a terrorist organisation which stands to benefit from the escalation of such conflict; GATA must come around to encourage a sustainable resolution.”
― Ray Anyasi, How to Terrorize Terrorism: a more effective answer to global terrorism

“The multifaceted nature of the strong points of the enemy in this brutal warfare calls for nothing less than a global scale collaborative response that is stubbornly radical, yet humanely civil.”
― Ray Anyasi, How to Terrorize Terrorism: a more effective answer to global terrorism

“…a man's value should be gauged by how much value he places on the entire concept of humanity.” - Dami K.”
― Ray Anyasi, To Live Again

“Our route had now obviously been completely blotted out and here I reckoned less of our chances of survival. We’re like a voyage ship veered off course by a ruthless storm now left with no radar or compass. Ours is a sorry tale of an unpredictable adventure. One moment it seem like we’re going home to mama’s warm embrace and tears of joy, the next moment we feel helplessly immersed in the blackness of hopelessness.” - Dami K.”
― Ray Anyasi, To Live Again

“…fighters do not think and thinkers do not fight. That is the natural design of warfare.” -Peter Kotara.”
― Ray Anyasi, Ujasiri

“If your office post is on an LRA path, then believe me your job is as good as lost.” - Peter Kotara.”
― Ray Anyasi

“Now it’s clear to me, I haven’t understood as well as I should, the cracks on the ground we stood. A blast ignited through ballot boxes by the choices of unsuspecting and innocent Nigerians has rippled across the country and has torn the curtain open to set the stage for these cracks to grow into magnified quakes now swallowing us up.” - Dami K.”
― Ray Anyasi, To Live Again

“If you have thousands of men at your command, the first enemy you kill without pulling a trigger is fear.” –Christian Ezora.”
― Ray Anyasi, Ujasiri

“I am not an idiot. I know the dangers in what I am about to do, but it is the only way I can live with myself.” –Joseph Dahr.”
― Ray Anyasi, Ujasiri

“Sleep is a luxury. They have nowhere to go to.” –Joseph Dahr.”
― Ray Anyasi, Ujasiri

“In the kingdom of Iluji, a taboo was only a taboo when it has a non-participating witness. And in this land blanketed with darkness, secret was the code of every deed and the darkness was the only constant observing angel.”
― Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise

“That mad and oppressive demon that had possessed him from the instant he set his eyes on her by the banks of the King's Flow kept whispering to him his heart will freeze if he stayed away from her for up to a work period.”
― Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise

“To do what you want is not a privilege. It is a curse. It is the curse of ordinary men. Men with no responsibilities do whatever they want. Common men with no value and self worth do whatever they want. Men whose lives have no worthy purpose are free to do whatever they want. Not you. You are a prince for whom a heavy crown and a powerful throne await. You do not do whatever you want; you do what must be done."- King Chuka”
― Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise

“Ottes die for anything, but while I was in there," she nodded at the gently flowing river, "I felt for a brief moment what freedom might taste like.”- Sari”
― Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise

“If I say you are not free to associate with me, it also means I too am not free to associate with you. I might call you the slave but not less bound by the slavery I have created."- Prince Ikan”
― Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise

“Yes, they have all done some good work that has left our world a safer place today. But we need a more direct strategy that can endure for as long as the threat persists without hurting the sovereignty of nations and human rights of the same people it seeks to protect.”
― Ray Anyasi, How to Terrorize Terrorism: a more effective answer to global terrorism

“Not so long afterwards it was broad day light in Iluji for the first time ever.”
― Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise

“Father, you are asking me to sacrifice the only girl I love so you can openly have the woman you love.”
― Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise

“Mother, I share your concern, but I do not know how to be afraid of what I cannot change."- Sari”
― Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise

“We have accepted it as our unique problem and the fate of our kingdom and have found ways to live on without the sun. We all can be happy if we choose to be."- Sari”
― Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise