There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Naming is like putting a stamp on something and fixing it. A kind of formaldehyde sort of fixation, but it becomes dead,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We don't want to be simply wandering about without some kind of reason, we want our presence here to have a purpose,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murdered… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“And so Mr. Brown came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith.” — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.” — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. In one of my essays,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
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