Random Quote
Every day every birthday candle I blow out every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well every time my daughter says 'Let's make a wish on a star ' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
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.
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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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They...
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries you don't...
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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 Time
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a...
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every...
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It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em confuse 'em. It's an old...
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A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney' but...
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin...
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are...
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I'm being treated like a sex object cried the lady. No matter. I will take...
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If I have to move up in a building I choose the elevator over the escalator....