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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 48 quotes by Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe (/ˈtʃɪnwɑː əˈtʃɛbɛ/, born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart (1958) was considered his magnum opus, and is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Raised by his parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies. He... Read full biography of Chinua Achebe → 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. 0 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... → 0 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 -... → 0 One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender. 0 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. 0 The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. 0 A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. 0 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... → 0 People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories. 0 The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. 0 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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