Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. - Chinua Achebe

Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

It began to dawn on me that although fiction was undoubtedly fictitious it could also be true or false, not with the truth or falsehood of a news item but as to its disinterestedness, its intention, its integrity.

The man who brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit