Chinua Achebe Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• ...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Risk, Injustice

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays”, p.95, Anchor

• A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Doe, Toads

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.15, Heinemann

• The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Writing, Tired

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.50, Penguin

• A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Fighting, Coward

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.50, Heinemann

• Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on long enough, beyond one generation, then the habit of self-rule is forgotten. People are no longer able to realize what it means. To be dependant for a hundred years! And suddenly when this thing ends there is nobody who actually knows how to set about running the country.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Country, Taken

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

• 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

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