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Chinua Achebe (Writer)

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 people
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.
— Chinua Achebe literature
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
— Chinua Achebe integrity
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
— Chinua Achebe strength
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.
— Chinua Achebe men
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
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
— Chinua Achebe self
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe experience
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 just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.
— Chinua Achebe life
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
— Chinua Achebe reality
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
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.
— Chinua Achebe time
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
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.
— Chinua Achebe religion
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
— Chinua Achebe art
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
— Chinua Achebe religion
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.
— Chinua Achebe people
Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
— Chinua Achebe leaders
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
— Chinua Achebe time
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.
— Chinua Achebe art
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.
— Chinua Achebe art
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
— Chinua Achebe people
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
— Chinua Achebe art
I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
— Chinua Achebe life
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 its 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 people
I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.
— Chinua Achebe self

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