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Chinua Achebe quotes

Nigerian Writer November 16, 1930

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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
Chinua Achebe quote: "There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with..."
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless. Chinua Achebe
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
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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down. Chinua Achebe
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
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever. Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe quote: "When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk"
When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk Chinua Achebe
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe quote: "The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn..."
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. Chinua Achebe
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. Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe quote: "when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of..."
...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly. Chinua Achebe
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity. Chinua Achebe
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
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

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