Chinua Achebe Quotes

Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever. Conventional tragedy is too easy. The hero dies and we feel a purging of the emotions. A real tragedy takes place in a corner, in an untidy spot, to quote W. H. Auden.

Chinua Achebe

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• You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.

  

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• Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.

  

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• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

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• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

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• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

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• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

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• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

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• It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

  

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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

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• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

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• Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

  

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• It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.

  

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• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

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• I think it's good to conquer the fears.

  

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• Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'

  

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• When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

  

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• What Trump has done is tap into a deep-seated anxiety about where the country is headed. There is an anxiety that is real and sincere. Many people feel helpless.

  

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  • People
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• Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly forever. Conventional tragedy is too easy. The hero dies and we feel a purging of the emotions. A real tragedy takes place in a corner, in an untidy spot, to quote W. H. Auden.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Real
  • Forever
  • Hero