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World Quotes by Chinua Achebe
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect…
- 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 price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use…
- You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may…
- I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this…
- 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 world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — 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
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach