When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.

Actually, I identify with all my characters, good and bad. I have to do that in order to make them genuine. I have to understand them even if I don't approve of them. Not completely - it's impossible; complete identification is, in fact, not desirable.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.