Needs Quotes by Chinua Achebe

12 Needs quotes by Chinua Achebe

Achebe’s 12 thoughts on Needs are compact yet resonant, echoing his literary focus on cultural and personal imperatives. Each line feels like a distilled piece of his broader narrative.

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I have so many ideas; there are so many things that need to be done, so many possibilities, you know; one is…

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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need…

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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or…

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I do not think that there is any time in our history when things were perfect. I do not expect such times…

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Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said - or betray it. So it is not something that…

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I do not think that there need be the conflict between books and videos, that one would drive out the other. It…

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Naming is like putting a stamp on something and fixing it. A kind of formaldehyde sort of fixation, but it becomes dead,…

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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a…

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What really worries me is that those who are in positions of power are not really affected by what we are writing.…

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Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far…

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It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in…

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Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil…

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

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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 father beats…

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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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