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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.
— chinua achebe art
In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest—without asking to be paid.
— chinua achebe life
He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.
— chinua achebe book
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
— chinua achebe strength
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
— chinua achebe people
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 literature
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
— chinua achebe love
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
— chinua achebe work
When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.
— chinua achebe women
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
— Chinua Achebe self
Art is mans constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
— Chinua Achebe art
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 art
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
— Chinua Achebe integrity
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
— Chinua Achebe people
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 people
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
— Chinua Achebe time
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that its this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
— Chinua Achebe men
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 art
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 people
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.
— Chinua Achebe suffering
Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
— Chinua Achebe leaders
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe experience
In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chestówithout asking to be paid.
— Chinua Achebe life

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