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Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe

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Born Tuesday, 30 November -0001
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Chinua Achebe

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It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone. Uncategorized
You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect - you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break - her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there Uncategorized
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. Uncategorized
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. Uncategorized
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. Uncategorized
Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. Uncategorized
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room. Uncategorized
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. Uncategorized
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. Uncategorized
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. Uncategorized
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us. Uncategorized
I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days. Uncategorized
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. Uncategorized
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. Uncategorized
I don't care about age very much. Uncategorized
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. Uncategorized
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. Uncategorized
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. Uncategorized
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. Uncategorized
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. Uncategorized