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Chinua Achebe Quotes
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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 Quotes)
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
It was like beginning life anew without the vigor and enthusiasm of youth, like learning to become left handed in old age (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I don’t take (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
I have so many ideas; there are so many things that need to be done, so many possibilities, you know; one is terribly excited, but at the same time, you’re almost confused, because you don’t know where to begin (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
A man’s life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
If I write novels in a country in which most citizens are illiterate, who then is my community? (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor’s domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That’s not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can’t dance (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
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 (Chinua Achebe Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)