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30 Chinua Achebe Quotes & Sayings
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30 Chinua Achebe Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 16 November 1930. Died: 21 March 2013 |
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If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
Chinua Achebe
Story
Write
Like
Own
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
Chinua Achebe
Leaders
Always
Elected
Habit
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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.
Chinua Achebe
Teach
Nobody
Who
Describe
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The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Chinua Achebe
Clever
White
Religion
Amused
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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.
Chinua Achebe
Lions
History
Hunt
Glorify
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
Chinua Achebe
Learnt
Experience
Nothing
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
Chinua Achebe
People
Growing
Life
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Chinua Achebe
Procrastination
Lazy
Man
Apology
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
Chinua Achebe
Mad
Naked
Walks
Kinsmen
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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.
Chinua Achebe
Old
People
Sweetness
Mouths
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
Chinua Achebe
Christianity
Valuable
Thing
Whole
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
Chinua Achebe
Nigeria
Trouble
Mistreatment
Religion
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Chinua Achebe
World
Mask
Dancing
Stand
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
Chinua Achebe
Society
Fullness
People
Create
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
Chinua Achebe
History
About
Parts
Story
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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.
Chinua Achebe
Purpose
Art
Serve
Indict
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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!
Chinua Achebe
Replace
Careful
End
Always
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
Chinua Achebe
Democracy
Educated
Grounded
Healthy
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An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
Chinua Achebe
Against
Side
Artist
Emperor
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
Chinua Achebe
Story
Part
Work
History
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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.
Chinua Achebe
Gender
Citizens
People
Fair
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.
Chinua Achebe
Neck
Around
Time
Ankle
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
Chinua Achebe
Country
Leave
Without
Off
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
Chinua Achebe
Centuries
Day
Enough
Just
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.
Chinua Achebe
Story
Far
Begin
Surface
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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.
Chinua Achebe
Existing
Gains
Imagine
Journey
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe
Reality
Order
Create
Art
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Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
Chinua Achebe
Leaders
Because
Should
Nigeria
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Chinua Achebe
Blunt
Refusal
Tests
Integrity
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
Chinua Achebe
Repair
Year
Take
Done
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