...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

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

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I don’t take.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

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