Chinua Achebe Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• 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.'

  Chinua Achebe

  Thought Provoking, Humanity, Mud

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jul 28, 2012

• My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don’t see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I don’t take.

  Chinua Achebe

  Art, Humanity, Purpose

• We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

  Chinua Achebe

  Humanity

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “The Education of a British-Protected Child”, p.143, Penguin UK

• Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil is too swampy for the cultivation of the yams which God has directed him to grow. God tells him to bring in a blacksmith to dry the soil with his bellows. The contribution of humanity to this creation is so important. God could have made the world perfect if he had wanted. But he made it the way it is. So that there is a constant need for us to discuss and cooperate to make it more habitable, so the soil can yield, you see.

  Chinua Achebe

  Morning, Men, Yield

• Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

  Chinua Achebe

  Art, Humanity, Serious

• This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.

  Chinua Achebe

  Racism, Humanity, Impossible

• Art should be on the side of humanity.

  Chinua Achebe

  Art, Humanity, Sides

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