1. “One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”
2. “A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.”
3. “A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness.”
4. “Charity … is the opium of the privileged.”
5. “Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.”
6. “The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”
7. “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
8. “When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.”
9. “People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”
10. “If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.”
11. “The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
12. “When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.”
13. “There is no story that is not true.”
14. “Those whose kernels were cracked by the benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.”
15. “People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.”
