Famous Quotes by Chinua Achebe

The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

One of the great tragedies of colonialism was that the colonized started mimicking the colonizer.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years and then in the eleventh year you wake up and start practicing again.

Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten.

The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

Writers don’t give prescriptions. They give headaches.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.