Chinua Achebe 1930–2013
Nigerian novelist 

1. Whatever you are is never enough; you must find a way to accept something however small from the other to make you whole.
   Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
2. The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well you do not stand in one place.
   from an Igbo proverb
   Arrow of God (1988) ch. 4
3. May good confront the man on top and the man below. But let him who is jealous of another's position choke with his envy.
   Arrow of God (1988) ch. 9
4. In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest—without asking to be paid.
   A Man of the People (1966)