Chinua Achebe

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'