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
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. — 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
I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame… — 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
Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
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
When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will… — 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
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin… — 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
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
I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way… — 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
For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it… — 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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