410 Quotes by Chinua Achebe

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.

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.