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Famous Chinua Achebe Quotes
“People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”
“Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.”
“I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.”
“Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.”
“Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever.”
“I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.”
“I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.”
“This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.”
“When Rimbaud became a slave trader, he stopped writing poetry.”
“Poetry and slave trading cannot be bedfellows. That's where I stand.”
“What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.”