"The language of the colonizer is not the language of the colonized."

"Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him."

"The writer's duty is to help society regain its self-belief and put away the complexes of the years of denigration and self-abasement."

"Africa is people. Africa is a continent of people."

"When a man says yes, his chi says yes also."