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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
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
University Teacher
Writer
Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
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It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.
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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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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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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.
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When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.
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[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?
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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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Children are very fair minded, they really are.
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Joseph Conrad was a thoroughgoing racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticisms of his work is due to the fact that white racism against Africa is such a normal way of thinking that its manifestations go completely unremarked.
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