Quotes by : Chinua Achebe

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which....

In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot....

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas....

I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed....

I feel that there has to be a purpose to what we do. If there was no hope at all, we should just sleep....

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed....

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about....

If we have any role at all, I think it’s the role of optimism, not blind or stupid optimism, but the....

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