When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?

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.

When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.

Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities