Chinua Achebe Quotes

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

Chinua Achebe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain.

John Hall

MyselfPainI AmSorryThinkBack

I was part of the generation that was supposed to become doctors.

Robert Picardo

GenerationBecomePartSupposed

Some studies have shown that natural gas could, in fact, be worse for the climate than coal.

Jeff Goodell

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An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Michael Ignatieff

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It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

Robert De Niro

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I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.

Roger Ebert

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When you get off five or six months, and you're not competing as an athlete, you want to get back out on the field.

Rob Gronkowski

YouBackWantAthleteOutCompeting

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

Russell M. Nelson

PowerKnowUnderstandLimitations

We want, certainly, the threats around the world, those that don't like our way of life, we want them to wonder what options we still have.

Michael T. Flynn

LifeWorldWonderWantWayOptions

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Dolly Parton

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When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren't being taken very seriously.

Douglas Tompkins

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Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.

Chesley Sullenberger

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