Quotes by Chinua Achebe

In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had...

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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

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Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him,...

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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our...

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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which...

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The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem...

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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or...

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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th...

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