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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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Literature

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Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.
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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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A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to say. And I'd even go on and say, I don't even think so.
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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities
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[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?
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The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb
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That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.
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Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.
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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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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 to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have narrowness of heart and mind is not.
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths it is because we see something which you do not see.
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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.
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What a man does not know is greater than he.
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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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The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.
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This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.
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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 that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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