Chinua Achebe

Writers don’t give prescriptions. They give headaches.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues it means taking pleasure in them.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya : ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.