Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
CHINUA ACHEBEThe price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.
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I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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Women and music should not be dated.
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My weapon is literature.
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A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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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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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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Nobody can teach me who I am.
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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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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.
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately. I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
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There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
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