Best Chinua Achebe Lines
- Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through… Africa
- Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches! Give
- Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity. Adversaries
- Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something… Describe
- There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with… Abomination
- Nobody can teach me who I am. Inspirational
- Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of… Capricious
- The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That… Babies
- If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she… Beads
- When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk Becomes
- A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness Great
- A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing Daytime
- An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb Always Uneasy
- Women and music should not be dated. Dated
- It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise… Creates
- Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble. Benevolent
- That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant. All
- Procrastination is a lazy man's apology. Apology
- Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. Achievement
- What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was… African
- Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time was the absence… Absence
- There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless. Allies
- In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint. Definition
- The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be… Achieve
- A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own… All
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