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Chinua Achebe Quotes

Nigerian - Writer | November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013

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

Integrity Blunt Tests Refusal Truest

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Strength Day Tradition Enough You

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. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

Great Yourself People Story You Try

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

Year Done Sometimes Repair Years

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.

Food Yourself Door Color Someone

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Time Water People You Find Say

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

Man Trouble Others Who Making Makes

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.

Suffering Door Worry You Say Him

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.

Religion Country Trouble Now Up Us

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

People Understanding Artist Side Her

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

People Gender Country Fair Ethnicity

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.

Great Diversity Problem You Simplify

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