Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.
Chinua AchebeI prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.
Chinua AchebeBut I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
Chinua AchebeI think the language that we use in dealing with one another is very important. And even if I am called upon to bring out some money to support a regime, and I am entitled to say I do not like what that regime does and obviously I am not going to put money there - you cannot really say this is wrong or this is unreasonable.
Chinua Achebe