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Very Quotes by Chinua Achebe
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to…
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel…
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light…
- 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…
- I don't care about age very much.
- Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission…
- 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,…
- 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.…
- At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a…
- 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…
- Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
- 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…
- The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
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