Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

by Chinua Achebe

the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

a man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness.

The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did.

For whom is it well, for whom is it well? There is no one for whom it is well.’

He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: ‘Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.’