Igbo Quotes

#1. Please don't speak Igbo to him,' Aunty Uju said. 'Two languages will confuse him.'
'What are you talking about, Aunty? We spoke two languages growing up.'
'This is America. It's different.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. My point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe ... I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.

Chinua Achebe

#4. You are an Igbo woman and Igbo women are stronger than any form of pain.

S.A. David

#5. I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

Uzo Aduba

#6. Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

Chinua Achebe

#7. The Igbo culture says no condition is permanent. There is constant change in the world.

Chinua Achebe

#8. I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady ...

Femi Fani-Kayode

#9. A horny Igbo girl's nipple can be used to crush diamond

Pete Edochie

#10. The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.

Chris Abani

#11. While my work is usually about the Igbo woman experience, there are many aspects of my female characters that women everywhere can and do relate to.

Chika Anadu

#12. When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.

Chris Abani

#13. Although Christianity had almost cleanly swept through Igbo land, crumbs and pieces of the African traditional religion had eluded the broom.

Chigozie Obioma

#14. I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

Julian Schnabel

#15. Take sleep mark death.

Glen L. Richards

#16. Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

Vanessa Marano

#17. He put a bullet through the forehead of the starving idiot face.

Stephen King

#18. It turns out that a husband who does the laundry, it's very romantic when you're older. And it's hard to believe when you're younger. But it's absolutely true.

Sheryl Sandberg

#19. I can't believe the poo-osity of my life!

Louise Rennison

#20. Invites us to live out our dreams, to embrace the uncertainty of life, and to rise to meet our own unique destiny.

Paulo Coelho