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Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe (, born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.

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I don't care about age very much.

Tags: Time, School, Deep
Chinua Achebe

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Tags: Science, Light, Analysis
Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Tags: Nothing, Learn, Learnt
Chinua Achebe

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.

Tags: Family, Two, Before
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!

Tags: Need, General, Share
Chinua Achebe

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Tags: Women, Played, Guess
Chinua Achebe

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Tags: Trust, May, After
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.

Tags: Love, Beautiful, Heart
Chinua Achebe

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.

Tags: Good, Thought, After
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.

Tags: Yourself, Little, Law
Chinua Achebe

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