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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
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Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
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The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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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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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
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Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Children are very fair minded, they really are.
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I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there was something inside me that wanted me to tell who I was, and that would have come out even if I didn't want it.
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Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.
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[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?
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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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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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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
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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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Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.
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My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I don’t take.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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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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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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