I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Women and music should not be dated.
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering...
He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days..
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in...
If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
We do not ask for wealth because he that has health and children will also have wealth. We do not pray to have money but to have more kinsmen. We are better than animals because we have kinsmen. An an...
There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
Then listen to me,' he said and cleared his throat. 'It's true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mother's hut. A man belongs to his father...
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.
Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and m...
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud t...
A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?N...
Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching.
The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary s...