Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

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.'

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.