Chinua Achebe Quotes

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.

Chinua Achebe

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Chinua Achebe

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chinua Achebe

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Chinua Achebe