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In America there is really ve...

In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.

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The market literature, which ...

The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the victims of the civil war, that market was actually destroyed and at the end of the war a new Nigeria has struggled to come into being and I believe that what is probably going to replace the market literature might be the video, which they have taken to in a big way, creating dramas. So that may be the next thing way we will see coming out of the local basic level in our society.

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Even the village rain-maker n...

Even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health.

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As our fathers said, you can ...

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

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Men have learned to shoot wit...

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

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Democracy is not something yo...

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

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Presidents do not go off on l...

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

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Once you allow yourself to id...

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. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

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When old people speak it is n...

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.

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Stories serve the purpose of ...

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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A man who makes trouble for o...

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

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

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.

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I think an artist, in my defi...

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.

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I don't care about age very m...

I don't care about age very much. 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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Americans, it seems to me, te...

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.

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It is the storyteller who mak...

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

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People say that if you find w...

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.

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The most important thing abou...

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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My parents were early convert...

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

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A functioning, robust democra...

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

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