Quotes by "Chinua Achebe"
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this.
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
