Chinua Achebe Quotes

A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit - in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.