410 Quotes by Chinua Achebe

Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

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.

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

My weapon is literature

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors.