Chinua Achebe Quotes
I don't care about age very much.
Achebe, Chinua. "The Art of Fiction No. 139." Interview by Jerome Brooks. The Paris Review, no. 133, Winter 1994.
She and many of the other white activists were called “do-gooders” by the Southern authorities of communities which were integration demonstration targets. The term was derogatory in the South, but Mrs. Peabody and others were proud of the term as that was exactly their purpose—to do good. Mrs. Peabody, and the wives of a number of wives of Christian Bishops, black and white, went to a restaurant in St. Augustine and requested service which was contrary to the segregation laws of Florida at the time. The women were arrested. The act of civil disobedience in integrating the restaurant was one act of a planned desegregation strategy worked out with Martin Luther King’s SCLC organization. The mature age of the women and their prominent husbands brought a great deal of newspaper coverage which is just what the demonstrators wanted. The photo is of Mrs. Peabody getting arrested. See {637404} and {637405} for more on this incident.
Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart (1958), often considered his masterpiece, is the most widely read book in modern African literature.
