We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

I grew up recognizing that there was nobody to give me any advice and that you do your best and if it's not good enough, someday you will come to terms with that.

...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.