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multibeautiful2011-06-10 11:26 am
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Chinua Achebe
For the last post of this impromptu literary fiction fest, I give you Nigerian writer and professor Chinua Achebe, author of the magnificent Things Fall Apart.
"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them."
"We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down." --from The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them."
"We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down." --from The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
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