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Chinua AchebeThere was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.
Chinua AchebeAs our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.
Chinua AchebeTags: character trustworthiness judging-by-appearance
It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.
Chinua AchebeTags: inner-strength
He saw himself and his fathers crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days..
Chinua AchebeTags: things-fall-apart
The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
Chinua AchebeThere is that great proverb—that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
Chinua AchebeLet no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.
Chinua AchebeTags: inspirational writing aspirational
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
Chinua Achebe...she was sensitive enough and intelligent enough to understand, and her literary education could not but have sharpened her perception of the evidence before her eyes: that in the absurd raffle-draw that apportioned the destinies of post-colonial African societies two people starting off even as identical twins in the morning might quiet easily find themselves in the evening one as President shitting on the heads of the people and the other a nightman carrying the people's shit in buckets on his head.
Chinua AchebeTags: africa postcolonialism
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