Chinua Achebe quotes
“A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.” — Chinua Achebe
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“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.” — Chinua Achebe
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“People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.” — Chinua Achebe
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“People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.” — Chinua Achebe
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“The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.” — Chinua Achebe
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“The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this.” — Chinua Achebe
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“They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.” — Chinua Achebe
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“What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's a waste of time.” — Chinua Achebe
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“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.” — Chinua Achebe
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