To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
Chinua AchebeMy weapon is literature
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Chinua AchebeTag: okonwo things-fall-apart
It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Chinua AchebeTag: compassion agape charity brotherly-love
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.
Chinua AchebeTag: freedom story storytellers
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
Chinua AchebeTag: story
Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
Chinua AchebeTag: paraphrased charity
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.
Chinua AchebeTag: experience language english
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