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“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
“Nene Atang from Calabar. She is the only girl I can marry.” This was a very rash reply and Nnaemeka expected the storm to burst. But it did not. His father merely walked away into his room. This was most unexpected and perplexed Nnaemeka. His father’s silence was infinitely more menacing than a flood of threatening speech. That night the old man did not eat.”
“If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.”
“When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.”
“Lying in wait for the people’s land and resources.”
“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.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
