Chinua Achebe Quotes About Neighbors

Quotes about: Neighbors

• Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

  Chinua Achebe

  Mother, Home, Men

• It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Different, Stories

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jun 28, 2010

• The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

  Chinua Achebe

  Space, Long, People

• I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.

  Chinua Achebe

  Important, Be Kind, Messages

• The ordinary Nigerians have lived as neighbors down the millennia. I was talking about the British who came and merged a whole number of mini states and big states into one unit. But those people were always there, and they always managed to live side by side with their neighbours. So they were not owned or run by one kingdom. It was not practically impossible for these people when they have different languages and religions to be neighbors. So it is that habit of neighbourliness which is destroyed and put under great strain again and again when you have things like massacres.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Talking, Numbers

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

• For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it is quite interesting how frequently people want to write their own story. Sometimes it is straight history - this is how we came about, how our town was created, a lot of that kind of effort, as soon as literacy came. The first thing you wanted to do was to put something down about who you are or how you are related to you neighbors. Then the next stage would be the stories, the cultural part of the story: this is the kind of world our ancestors made or aspired to.

  Chinua Achebe

  Reading, Writing, People

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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