17 Top Famous Quotes of Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe stood as a pillar of African literary greatness, embodying the roles of poet, novelist, and critic. Revered as the paramount narrator of Africa’s tales, Achebe was born on November 16, 1930, in Ogidi, Nigeria, and Died on March 21, 2013, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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As a genius of literary creation, Achebe crafted numerous novels that engraved his name in history. Among his illustrious works are “Things Fall Apart” (1958), “No Longer at Ease” (1960), “Arrow of God” (1964), “A Man of the People” (1966), “Anthill of the Savannah” (1987), and “There Was a Country” (2002).

Now, here are the 17 top Famous Quotes of Chinua Achebe. Enjoy and share to reach more people.

1. When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
2. The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place
3. Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.
4. Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am – and what I need – is something I have to find out myself
5. One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
6. 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
7. If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
8. There is no story that is not true.
9. Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
10. Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity
11. The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
12. Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology
13. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
14. Writers don’t give prescriptions. They give headaches!
15. A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk
16. To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
17. Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right to freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university, or wherever

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