Igbos Quotes & Sayings

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

With unparalleled rapidity, the Igbos advanced fastest in the shortest period of time of all Nigeria's ethnic groups. Like the Jews, to whom they have frequently been likened, they progressed despite being a minority in the country, filling the ranks of the nation's educated, prosperous upper classes. — Chinua Achebe

I cannot imagine myself without some opinion, but I wish to have good reasons for them. — George Eliot

There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless. — Laurence Gartel

'True Blood' is truly a playground. You get to go in and just let loose and completely just have fun and play around. There is so much freedom on set. — Lindsay Pulsipher

The world gets better as soon as people start doing exactly what they're great at. — The-Dream

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

So I lay her to sleep
and wipe off the milk
and step into the next room
for some innocent filth
in the middle of which
her scream jolts me up
And I transform breast once more
between lover
and love. — Hollie McNish

The underbelly of envy and jealousy is an unconscious holding back of yourself. — Deborah Sandella

The very desire to seek the truth often causes people, who do not know how it should be sought correctly, to make judgements about things that they do not perceive and in that way they make mistakes. — Rene Descartes

Intuition knows what the mind can't see yet. — Maria Erving