Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
Sayings by Chinua Achebe
The strength of the clan is the strength of the individual.
The storyteller is a problem-solver.
A man who has nowhere to lay his head is a wanderer.
The lizard that jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said that he would praise himself if no one else did.
The language of the colonizer is not the language of the colonized.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty tree.
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
The world is not a place for cowards.
Storytellers are a threat. They are subversive. They are dangerous. What we call information is not knowledge.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
The white man thinks he has everything, but he has nothing.
Africa is people. Africa is a continent of people.
The educated are not always the wise.
The price of a lie is that you don't know when it's going to stop.
The story is a net to catch the wind.
Every generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
The world is not a market where you can buy and sell everything.
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
The writer is often faced with the dilemma of how to write about a society that is rapidly changing.