Chinua achebe sayings

Chinua Achebe, the renowned Nigerian author, has left behind a wealth of insightful sayings and quotes. Here are a few of his notable sayings:

1. "If you don't like someone's story, write your own."

2. "Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."

3. "People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them."

4. "The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place."

5. "When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."

6. "The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them."

7. "A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so."

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

9. "A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."

10. "The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but whether you brought the ship in."

Above is Chinua achebe sayings.