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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 world.

Chinua Achebe

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Chinua Achebe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1930
Born: November 16
Died: 2013
Died: March 22
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
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World
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Journey
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Consolidating
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Existing

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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 the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.
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I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
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There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
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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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Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
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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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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 last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
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I have so many ideas there are so many things that need to be done, so many possibilities, you know one is terribly excited, but at the same time, you're almost confused, because you don't know where to begin.
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Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.
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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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Children are very fair minded, they really are.
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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.
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I think dialects should be left alone. People should write in whatever dialect they feel they want to write. In the fullness of time, these dialects will sort themselves out.
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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 of the African voice. Being part of that dialogue meant not only sitting at the table but effectively telling the African story from an African perspective - in full earshot of the world.
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Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
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Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.
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What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.
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The language of young men is pull down and destroy but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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