Best Chinua Achebe Words
- I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new… Able
- After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. Catches
- An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. Artist
- Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. Colonial
- A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays. Business
- If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich.… Ask
- There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Glorify
- The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach… Acting
- Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as a result of… Accusation
- My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can… Always Existed
- When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight. Beat
- If you don't like someone's story, write your own. Own
- My weapon is literature Inspirational
- The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay.… Act
- It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we… Beggar
- It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the… Apart
- Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church… All
- While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary. Agape
- Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged. Charity
- At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a… Agreed
- Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of… Accepted
- Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking… Been
- ...Nothing puzzles God Funny
- Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord… Brown
- ...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly. Absentmindedly
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