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Chinua Achebe has 164 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because…
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something…
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when…
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more…
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,…
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or…
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you…
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing…
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A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.
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Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.
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This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.
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And I don't feel any fear in a sense, because I have every good intention in my heart. When you face up…
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If what that man did in his life, makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them believe deeper…
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Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able…
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Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.
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