Quote

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

V. S. Naipaul

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

V. S. Naipaul
Died: 2018
Died: August 11
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Africans
Kicked
Understand
Need
Needs
Thing

More quotes by V. S. Naipaul

Image
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness and we inquired about nothing.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
It is important not to trust people too much.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
Small things start us in new ways of thinking
V. S. Naipaul
Image
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
I have a very small public.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
V. S. Naipaul
Image
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
V. S. Naipaul