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In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.
Chinua Achebe
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Chinua Achebe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1930
Born: November 16
Died: 2013
Died: March 22
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Short Story Writer
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Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
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If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.
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When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.
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Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.
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The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.
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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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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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What is modesty but inverted pride?
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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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Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.
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When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.
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