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Chinua Achebe Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: nigerian
Birth: November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013

Topics

Strength Day Tradition Enough You

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

Family Faith Freedom Government Want

My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.

Love Movies Horror Possible See

I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

Now Shakespeare John

Nick hasn't seen me naked - I'm not a person who's constantly flinging my clothes aside and strutting about.

Me Clothes Person Naked Seen About

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

Life Myself People Looking You Back

I do proclaim myself king of bachata because I have to represent my genre. I have to always come out and put on the Superman cape. I'm pretty much representing my culture. I'm not going to change that. But I definitely don't want there to be a misconception where people are like, 'The only thing he likes to do is bachata.'

Change Myself Culture King People

What drives me is winning medals and going out there and enjoying it.

Me Winning Medals Out Going Drives

When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning, you bring the best architects. How it is possible that when we are talking about the way we are going to feed America, no chef shows up in the room?

Health Best Chef Medicine Planning

I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food.

Food Shopping Atlanta Always Just

I did go to Beijing, with a two-year assignment. I stayed four years. And those four years were the most formative four years in my life. What I learned was more than I would have learned in 10 years in America or Europe, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Life My Life America Go More Europe

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

Poverty Up Seen Close Five Four

I got through college realizing business was repugnant.

Bruce McCulloch

Business College Through Got

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