The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

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.

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.