- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Facility
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
- Nov 07, 2020
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care about age very much.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Genocide
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
- Educated
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- Nov 07, 2020
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
- Bad Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write.
- Frustrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
- Harshness
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- Nov 07, 2020