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Chinua Achebe

"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."

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"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."

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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."

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"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."

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"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."

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"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."

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"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."

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"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."

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