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
men juicy mouths
[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?
men arms harvest
When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
life men transition
A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.
baby lying men
You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
men library old-man
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
men favors may
A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.
heart men okonkwo
Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.
pain men grieving
They say a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; only the silent tremor of pain down its body tells of its suffering.
children men okonkwo
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
eye past men
This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.
hurt men necks
We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
men yesterday get-up
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
men thought-provoking doe
What a man does not know is greater than he.
men land empty
When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.