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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.
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
Cry
Justice
Understanding
Peace
Culture
Another
Elude
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Deaf
People
Diversity
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I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just incredible. And when we talk to one another and there is a certain sense of frustration and but I struggle not to let the frustration degenerate into dispair.
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One would think he never sucked at his mother’s breast.
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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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 must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.
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What is modesty but inverted pride?
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A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.
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Actually, I identify with all my characters, good and bad. I have to do that in order to make them genuine. I have to understand them even if I don't approve of them. Not completely - it's impossible complete identification is, in fact, not desirable.
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There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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I don't like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.
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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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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.
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A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.
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