Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebewas a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apartwas considered his magnum opus, and is the most widely read book in modern African literature...
NationalityNigerian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 November 1930
CityOgidi, Nigeria
CountryNigeria
beautiful heart passion
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
blame vulture
Do you blame a vulture for perching over a carcass?
space long people
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.
kind used ifs
What kind of power was it if it would never be used?
children people world
Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.
men yesterday get-up
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
journey people leader
Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.
men thought-provoking doe
What a man does not know is greater than he.
thought-provoking house ceilings
When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?
men land empty
When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.
father boys doors
A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.
fall son thought-provoking
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered
kings children hands
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
men hands should
A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.