But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. - Chinua Achebe 1 Share Now -
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. - Chinua Achebe 2 Share Now -
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience. - Chinua Achebe 3 Share Now -
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. - Chinua Achebe 4 Share Now -
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse! - Chinua Achebe 6 Share Now -
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience. - Chinua Achebe 7 Share Now -
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. - Chinua Achebe 8 Share Now -
Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness. - Chinua Achebe 9 Share Now -
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. - Chinua Achebe 10 Share Now -
