Chinua Achebe Quote

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well..

Chinua Achebe Quote

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any...

I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s...

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people,...

Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death

Chinua Achebe Quote

Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of...

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

How did you become blind, uh, Jeff is it?"<br /> Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you...

There's some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what

He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly