Chinua Achebe Quotes About Past

• Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. "It has not always been so," he said. "My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve.

  Chinua Achebe

  Father, Past, Men

• El novelista como maestro": "Me daría por satisfecho si mis novelas (sobre todo las que sitúo en el pasado) no hicieran más que enseñar a mis lectores que su pasado -con todas sus imperfecciones- no fue una larga noche de salvajismo de la que les libraron los primeros europeos actuando en nombre de Dios.

  Chinua Achebe

  Teacher, Past, Night

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

• This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.

  Chinua Achebe

  Eye, Past, Men

  Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people live.

  Chinua Achebe

  Past, Cities, People

  Fuente: www.ehlingmedia.com

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