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

Art should be on the side of humanity.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.