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Children Quotes by Chinua Achebe

17 Children quotes by Chinua Achebe

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If you’re looking for a voice that balances the weight of history with the softness of youthful moments, Achebe’s take on children offers just that. Across seventeen succinct observations, he weaves the everyday with the profound, giving you a glimpse of how the next generation shapes and is shaped by his world.

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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.

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Children are very fair minded, they really are.

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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.

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Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.

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Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could…

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No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women)…

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Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way…

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I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or…

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Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring.…

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“Children left their old parents at home and scattered in all directions in search of money. It was hard on an old…

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We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you…

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What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A…

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“You think you are the greatest sufferer in the world? Do you know that men are sometimes banished for life? Do you…

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Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as…

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Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every…

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You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not.…

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“Then listen to me,' he said and cleared his throat. 'It's true that a child belongs to its father. But when a…

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My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

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“And so Mr. Brown came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith.”

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“I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.”

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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to…

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I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just…

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I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to…

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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We…

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When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.

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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of my essays,…

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Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays.…

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This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.

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What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

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