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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.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

A man who makes trouble for o...

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

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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.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

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.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

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.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

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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The problem with leaderless u...

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!

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One of the truest tests of in...

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

The only thing we have learnt...

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

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The whole idea of a stereotyp...

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.

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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

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.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

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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There's no lack of writers wr...

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.

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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

In fact, I thought that Chris...

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.

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I think back to the old peopl...

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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When suffering knocks at your...

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

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People from different parts o...

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.

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When I began going to school ...

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

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