410 Quotes by Chinua Achebe

...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

No man however great is greater than his people

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I don’t take.

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.