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The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

Chinua Achebe
Moving, Giving, Black History
FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jan 17, 2017

As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.

Chinua Achebe
Giving, Creative, Suffering
Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.104, Heinemann

Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

Chinua Achebe
Reality, Giving, Literature
Chinua Achebe (2012). “Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays”, p.215, Anchor

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe
Giving, Thought Provoking, Headache
"Anthills of the Savannah". Book by Chinua Achebe, 1987.

I grew up recognizing that there was nobody to give me any advice and that you do your best and if it's not good enough, someday you will come to terms with that.

Chinua Achebe
Giving, Not Good Enough, Advice

If I say look unless you change your leaders I will not give you any aid, you are likely to have people who say: "To the hell with you, we will struggle on the way but we will do it". Therefore what I am saying is - and I do not whether it is coming through clearly - there has to be a lot of care exercised by the people who are in the position to give or withhold assistance: if they start throwing their weight around, using extreme language, seeming to order other nations to do their bidding, then there will not be a good result, it will not be done.

Chinua Achebe
Struggle, Order, Giving
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