Chinua Achebe Reality Quotations

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not.

It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.