“To be generous is to say yes before the man even opens his mouth.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
“The Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly, so his chi agreed. And not only his chi but his clan too, because it judged a man by the work of his hands.”
— Chinua Achebe, book Things Fall Apart
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 4 (p. 29)
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