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

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

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

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

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 budding writer wants to be encouraged.