Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it? — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all. — 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
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Whenever I try to do anything on a typewriter, it's like having this machine between me and the words; what comes out… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
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.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women)… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way… — 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… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
There are people who say that if you are told that your house has fallen you don't ask what about the ceiling… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Those who are talking sharia in Nigeria are really just politicians exploiting what they think is available. But if it should turn… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If the economy of a country collapses completely and the hospitals are no longer able to function as hospitals, it will be… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be… — 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
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
If I say look unless you change your leaders I will not give you any aid, you are likely to have people… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I grew up recognizing that there was nobody to give me any advice and that you do your best and if it's… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community? — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a… — 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
“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
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
“And so Mr. Brown came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith.” — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
“I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.” — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Then listen to me,' he said and cleared his throat. 'It's true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share
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