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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
Uneasy
Mentioned
Dry
Bones
Woman
Always
Proverb

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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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If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.
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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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After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
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Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?
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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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Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.
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Beware Okonkwo! she warned. Beware of exchanging words with Agbala. Does a man speak when a god speaks? Beware!
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The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.
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I am not an early-morning person I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.
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...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag every man carries his own.
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It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escortwithout it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the storyrather,it is the story that owns us.
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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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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate
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Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.
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