The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

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

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

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.

One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?