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Chinua Achebe Inspirational Quotes (162)

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It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.
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The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past – with all its imperfections – was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God’s behalf delivered them.
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You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.
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A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone.
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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 are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit new African surroundings.
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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
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When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.
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...Nothing puzzles God
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'
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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 a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.
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When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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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, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.
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