Chinua Achebe Mouths Quotations

[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.