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People go to Africa and confir...

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

When old people speak it is no...

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 248 quotes

What's important is that we re...

What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's a waste of time.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

The whole idea of a stereotype...

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

People say that if you find wa...

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 248 quotes

I tell my students, it's not d...

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

A functioning, robust democrac...

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

Oh, the most important thing a...

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.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

What a country needs to do is ...

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

Art is man's constant effort t...

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

The problem with leaderless up...

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 248 quotes

The damage done in one year ca...

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

In fact, I thought that Christ...

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 248 quotes

I think back to the old people...

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

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But I liked Yeats! That wild I...

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

Once a novel gets going and I ...

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

When the British came to Ibo l...

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

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The last four or five hundred ...

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

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People create stories create p...

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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When a tradition gathers enoug...

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

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