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...Nothing puzzles God
A chief does not hurry.
My weapon is literature
Nobody can teach me who I am.
I don't care about age very much.
What is modesty but inverted pride?
There is no story that is not true.
Women and music should not be dated.
An angry man is always a stupid man.
Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.
Art should be on the side of humanity.
I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.
A budding writer wants to be encouraged.
Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
She pouted her lips like a gun in my face.
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
What a man does not know is greater than he.
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing
Children are very fair minded, they really are.
No man however great is greater than his people
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?
What kind of power was it if it would never be used?
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.
One would think he never sucked at his mother’s breast.
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.
Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever.
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate
When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb