Good leaders, competent leaders must see it as primary task to create friendliness. This something within the scope of most people. Now artists, like writers and sort of course have an added option of using their scale and talent with this in view. It is their business to create an environment in which our people will prosper and be happy.
Chinua AchebeI think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.
Chinua AchebeThere is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
Chinua AchebePeople from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
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