A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle. - Chinua Achebe

What art tries to do is domesticate whatever is around and press it into the service of man. Morality is basic to the nature of art.

What mattered was that a man had treated me as no man had a right to treat another—not even if he was master and the other slave; and my manhood requires that I made him pay for his insult in full measure.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.