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Chinua Achebe Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Gender Country Fair Ethnicity

I would love to have twins. I think there's something nice about having two babies, and they're there for each other their whole entire life.

Life Love Think Nice Two Twins

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Experience Youth Small Enthusiasm

We came around the corner, I kissed her and after I kissed her she relaxed. And then I grabbed her and kissed her again and she was shocked! And that was what we wanted.

She Corner Her Relaxed Again Around

When I interviewed profilers in 1984 in the basement of the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA., there were just four of them - Roger Depue, John Douglas, Roy Hazelwood, and Robert Ressler.

FBI Just Four Basement Them Academy

I'm not the most articulate person.

Person Most Articulate

All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times.

Musicians Up Got Artists Certain

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Leadership Moment People Opinion

I don't like to think of myself as just a person. I don't think I am. I think I existed before, and I think I'll exist again after I die here, so I don't exactly know what I am. I don't think there is ever going to be an answer. I just know that I'm not like you.

Myself I Am Think Die You Person

Trump is going to be around a while.

Going Trump Around While

There's not many models in the U.S. that have my depth - like, really dark skin - that are also plus size. Skin color has been one of those things we haven't really, really addressed on a large, widespread scale.

Color Dark Skin Size Things Depth

If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade, seventh-grade level.

Richard Carmona

American Literature Talking You Want

It is hard to convince people that you mean them well if you are looking at them down the barrel of a gun.

People Looking Gun You Down Mean

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