93 quotes
I don't believe anybody will be so unlike other people that they will be unhappy when their sons are engaged to marry.
Girls at War and Other Stories (1973)
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
Lying in wait for the people’s land and resources.
Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems (1972)
As a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.
Things Fall Apart (1958)
Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: "Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig."
Things Fall Apart (1958)
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
Arrow of God (1988)
It was like beginning life anew without the vigor and enthusiasm of youth, like learning to become left-handed in old age.
Things Fall Apart (1958)
When a handshake goes beyond the elbow we know it has turned to another thing.
Arrow of God (1964)
What one looks for in a wife are a good character and a Christian background.
Marriage Is a Private Affair (1952)
Conrad saw and condemned the evil of imperial exploitation but was strangely unaware of the racism on which it sharpened its iron tooth.
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1975)
He warns them not to become “disinherited”.
Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems (1972)
That’s all they cared for,’ [Max] said with a solemn face. ‘Women, cars, landed property. But what else can you expect when intelligent people leave politics to illiterates like Chief Nanga?
Man of the People (1966)
We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet.
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1975)
The man who brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit
Arrow of God (1964)
He looked as bright as a new shilling in his immaculate white robes.
Man of the People (1966)
Do your people have a proverb about a man looking for something inside the bag of a man looking for something?
Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
The largest sum of money he had ever had at one time was threepence.
Chike and the River (1966)
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.
A certain enormous buck nigger encountered in Haiti fixed my conception of blind, furious, unreasoning rage, as manifested in the human animal to the end of my days.
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1975)
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.