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Achebe Chinua QUOTES

  • Charity... is the opium of the privileged.

  • Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

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

  • When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk.



  • Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings

  • I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.





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