The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

A good leader for instance is somebody like Nelson Mandela. I do not have seen such people coming every generation, maybe every ten generations, every hundred generations. People who are miracle workers.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

An angry man is always a stupid man.