•"Living fire begets cold, impotent ash." - Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Ch. 17 •"My weapon is literature." - Chinua Achebe •"No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man." - Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Ch. 7 •"Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself." ― Chinua Achebe