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Chinua Achebe quotes about people

Nigerian Writer November 16, 1930

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Chinua Achebe quote: "I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up,..."
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. Chinua Achebe
When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so. [...] But I fear for you young people because you do not understand how strong is the bond of kinship. You do not know what it is to speak with one voice. And what is the result? An abominable religion has settled among you. A man can now leave his father and his brothers. He can curse the gods of his fathers... Chinua Achebe
The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations. Chinua Achebe
At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed. Chinua Achebe
Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa. Chinua Achebe
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
There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. Chinua Achebe
Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings. Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe quote: "When I began going to school and learned to read, I..."
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. Chinua Achebe
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 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
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. 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
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
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

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