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“I am Evil Forest. I kill a man on the day that his life is sweetest to him.”
― Chinua Achebe, THINGS FALL APART

“But the Ibo have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

“Having spoken plainly so far, Okoye said the next half a dozen sentences in proverbs. Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten.”
― Chinua Achebe, THINGS FALL APART

“How can a sentient person of the modern age mistake photography for reality? All perception is selection, and all photographs--no matter how objectively journalistic the photographer's intent--exclude aspects of the moment's complexity. Photographs economize the truth; they are always moments more or less illusorily abducted from time's continuum.”
― Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs