Chinua Achebe Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

  Chinua Achebe

  Justice, Diversity, Long

• Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.

  Chinua Achebe

  Children, Eye, Justice

• The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations.

  Chinua Achebe

  Self, Shoes, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from May 03, 2015

• There is a certain increase in the importance I assign to women in getting us out of the mess that we are in, which is a reflection of the role of women in my traditional culture - that they do not interfere in politics until men really make such a mess that the society is unable to go backward or forward. Then women will move in.

  Chinua Achebe

  Moving, Reflection, Men

• I couldn't tell you why but now I know a story is in fact where you discover who you are, where a culture discovers what it is and I just think that this is a terribly important place to get into and that I would enjoy it.

  Chinua Achebe

  Thinking, Important, Facts

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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