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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

~Chinua Achebe

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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

~Chinua Achebe

Topics: Away Begin Color Different Different Kind Difficult Door Eats Far Far Away Food Identify Kind Like Literature Looks More Next Next Door Performing Really See Somebody Someone Students Tell Then Very Who Wonders You Yourself

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The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

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Topics: Diversity Going Great Idea Instead Just Just One Large Maybe Problem Simplify Statement Stereotype Through Whole You

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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that literature can do - it can make us identify with situations and people far away.

~Chinua Achebe

Topics: Allow Away Begin Even Far Far Away Great Great Thing Identify Literature Make Might Once People See Situation Situations Story Students Surface Tell Then Thing Try Us You Your Yourself

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Writer

Born: November 16th, 1930

Died: March 21st, 2013

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