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Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.16, Anchor. 22 Copy quote. There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts. Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.99, Heinemann. 7 Copy quote. The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.
All Quotes. Quotes By Chinua Achebe. 102 quotes from Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1): ‘The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion.
- Chinua Achebe
- 1958
- “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.
It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.”. ― Chinua Achebe, quote from Things Fall Apart. Copy text. “The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”. ― Chinua Achebe, quote from Things Fall Apart. Copy text. “A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.”.
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Okonkwo’s life was dominated by his determination to live up to his community’s ideals and values, among which are their prescription of what proper manly behavior should entail. This motivation was driven to the maximum by Okonkwo’s shame and resentment at his father’s inability to live up to these manly expectations. Okonkwo’s father was disrespe...
In this quote, Okonkwo contemplates the implication of his first son’s drift toward the Christians. The Christian missionaries and the colonialists offered a worldview that differed fundamentally from the values Okonkwo, and the Umuofia community hold dear. The Christian concepts of tolerance and peace stood at variance with traditional concepts of...
Okonkwo has always believed in bending fate to his advantage through sheer will, and for the most part, despite starting with nothing and experiencing setbacks establishing himself initially, he was able to achieve great success. However, his confidence in himself is tested after he was banished to his mother’s land after his great abomination of a...
Perhaps more than any other Umuofian, Okonkwo found it hardest to accept the new reality of the Whiteman’s ascendant power and the inevitability of their suzerainty over him. When he and other prominent Umuofia sons were arrested and humiliated for the part they played in razing the church building to the ground, he felt humiliated and swore vengea...
Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break. Chinua Achebe. 1. 2. Collection of sourced quotations from Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe. Share with your friends the best quotes from Things Fall Apart.
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That is what your religion tells us.” “It does not tell you that dead men return.”. 14 quotes from No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #2): ‘The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.'.
