In Chief Nanga’s company it was impossible not to be merry. — Chinua Achebe

We had all accepted things from white skins that none of us would have brooked from our own people.

What mattered was that a man had treated me as no man had a right to treat another—not even if he was master and the other slave; and my manhood requires that I made him pay for his insult in full measure.

A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.