A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

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

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

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.

If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one you would have lost something terribly important. So I think that we have a task to ensure that this doesn't happen.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.