“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.”
“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
“Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.”
Chinua Achebe“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“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“The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.”
Chinua Achebe“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“A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.”
Chinua Achebe“The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.”
Chinua Achebe“Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.”
Chinua Achebe“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“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.”
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