Author: Chinua Achebe

Quotes

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

- Chinua Achebe

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

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

- Chinua Achebe

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

- Chinua Achebe

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

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

- Chinua Achebe

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

- Chinua Achebe

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