Chinua Achebe World Quotations

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.

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require? Will the doctors, who are leaving in droves, coming to America, going to everywhere in the world - Saudi Arabia - how many of them will be there? The universities have almost completely lost their faculties and are hardly ever in session, shut down for one reason or another.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.

Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come.

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.