70 Powerful Chinua Achebe Quotes
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.
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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.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
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.
My weapon is literature
If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’ But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.
There is no story that is not true.
When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk
If you don't like my story,write your own
Nobody can teach me who I am.
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.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!
When Suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
