At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed.

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

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

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

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.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!