Top 15 Chinua Achebe Quotes

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

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.

Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

"We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.

There is no story that is not true.

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

If you don't like my story,write your own

My weapon is literature

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.