Chinua Achebe: Zitate auf Englisch
Chinua Achebe buch Things Fall Apart
Variante: The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
Quelle: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 15 (p. 130)
Kontext: "We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]
"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"
Chinua Achebe buch Things Fall Apart
Quelle: Things Fall Apart
“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
Chinua Achebe buch Arrow of God
Arrow of God (1988)
Chinua Achebe buch Anthills of the Savannah
Quelle: Anthills of the Savannah
Chinua Achebe buch Things Fall Apart
Quelle: Things Fall Apart
“If you don't like my story, write your own”
Chinua Achebe buch Things Fall Apart
Variante: If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
Quelle: Things Fall Apart
“Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!”
Chinua Achebe buch Anthills of the Savannah
Quelle: Anthills of the Savannah
Quelle: There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
“Charity… is the opium of the privileged.”
Chinua Achebe buch Anthills of the Savannah
Quelle: Anthills of the Savannah
Variante: When Suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
“When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk.”
Chinua Achebe buch Things Fall Apart
Quelle: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 2 (p. 14)
Chinua Achebe buch Anthills of the Savannah
Quelle: Anthills of the Savannah
“A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.”
Chinua Achebe buch Things Fall Apart
Quelle: Things Fall Apart
“The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.”
Chinua Achebe buch Things Fall Apart
Quelle: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 1 (p. 11)
“When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.”
Chinua Achebe buch No Longer at Ease
Quelle: No Longer at Ease (1960), Chapter 10 (p. 95)
Chinua Achebe buch Things Fall Apart
Quelle: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 16 (p. 133)
Quelle: The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
Chinua Achebe buch Things Fall Apart
Quelle: Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe buch Things Fall Apart
Quelle: Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe buch Things Fall Apart
Quelle: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 3 (p. 27)
Quelle: The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
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