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

“He sang it in his mind, and walked to its beat. If the song ended on his right foot, his mother was alive. If it ended on his left, she was dead. No, not dead, but ill. It ended on the right. She was alive and well. He sang the son again, and it ended on the left. But the second time did not count. The first voice gets to Chukwu, or God's house. That was a favorite saying of children. Ikemuna felt like a child once more. It must be the thought of going home to his mother.”
― Chinua Achebe

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

“There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.”
― Chinua Achebe, THINGS FALL APART