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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values some of the same techniques.
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....