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- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
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- “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.” ― Chinua Achebe.
- “The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.” ― Chinua Achebe.
- “While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.” ― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah.
- “The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one.
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- “We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.”
- “... when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.” ― Chinua Achebe, The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays.
- “Unfortunately, oppression does not automatically produce only meaningful struggle. It has the ability to call into being a wide range of responses between partial acceptance and violent rebellion.
- “The foreign correspondent is frequently the only means of getting an important story told, or of drawing the world's attention to disasters in the making or being covered up.
Quick answer: Quotes representing the theme of education in Things Fall Apart include: "Does the white man understand our custom about land?" (Chapter 20), highlighting the cultural...
Chinua Achebe (2011). “The Education of a British-Protected Child”, p.143, Penguin UK
Mar 21, 2013 · Chinua Achebe. A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. Chinua Achebe. 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.
