"People from different parts of the world can……" — Chinua Achebe
"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 own experience."
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162 Quotes by Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe has 162 quotes on this site.
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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…
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we…
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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,…
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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.…
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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…
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
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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…
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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.…
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was…
— Chinua Achebe
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Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine…
— George Matthew Adams
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Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from…
— Annie Besant
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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the…
— Herbert Spencer
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Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected,…
— Humphry Davy
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some…
— Thomas More
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Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's…
— Francis Crick
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The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different…
— James Madison
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For me, I've been really, really lucky because I have been able to play a lot of different parts.
— Noureen DeWulf
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My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success,…
— Rufus Sewell
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While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can untie…
— Franklin Pierce
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Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success…
— Phil McGraw
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