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People Quotes by Chinua Achebe
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do…
- People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your…
- What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
- I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
- People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
- No man however great is greater than his people
- People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of…
- Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
- People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of…
- The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis,…
- An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
- Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as a result of…
- 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…
- At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a…
- 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…
- There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with…
- 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.
- Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle