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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. Chinua Achebe

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An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. Chinua Achebe

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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. Chinua Achebe

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I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write. Chinua Achebe

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. Chinua Achebe

Me People Writing Somewhere Few Add Else Would Would-Be About Seems Somewhere Else Writers Huge Huge Number America Few People Lack Therefore Novels Wasteful Here Number

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. Chinua Achebe

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness. Chinua Achebe

People Society Books Deliberately Different Wanted Create Fullness Each

Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people. Chris Abani

I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should. Chris Abani

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The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god. Chris Abani

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out. Chris Abani

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The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things. Chris Abani

You Opportunity Slow Down Consider Writer Privilege Being Things

I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. Chris Abani

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I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too. Chris Abani

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I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly. Folorunsho Alakija

Think Too Say Never Badly Because Proud Am Done University

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point. Francis Arinze

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Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation. Francis Arinze

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There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. Francis Arinze

Today Culture World Virtue TV Tendency Around Always Copy

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom. Gbenga Akinnagbe

Work Freedom Community Economic Economic Growth Stimulate Intellectual Want Whether Growth

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