Best Chinua Achebe Quotes
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on… Allow
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their… Different Parts
- Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. Country
- Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the… Consolidating
- I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in… Behind
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's… Artist
- I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that… Badly
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was… Began
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's… Always Lived
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to… Add
- As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us. All
- 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. When they get… Awake
- A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. Inspirational
- An angry man is always a stupid man. Anger Management
- Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life. Broad
- 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 like. Inspirational
- The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them. Inspirational
- We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no… Across
- We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye… Always Practical
- Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig. Fly
- Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own. Bag
- The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use… Able
- When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself. Feel
- A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be. Doe
- A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday. Inspirational
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