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Danh ngôn của Chinua Achebe (Sứ mệnh: 8)

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
I don't care about age very much.
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.
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.
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.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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!
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.