When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries you don't just turn it off one day.
Quotes By Chinua Achebe
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When the British came to Ibo land for instance at the beginning of the 20th...
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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle that's the time to...
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They...
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the...
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language...
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A functioning robust democracy requires a healthy educated participatory...
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that...
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always...
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In fact I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable...
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I tell my students it's not difficult to identify with somebody like...
Quotes About Strength
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I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to...
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I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in...
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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear...
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The strength of a nation especially of a republican nation is in the...
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I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly...
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There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the...
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I am not yet born O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my...
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Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do....