Chinua Achebe Quotes

There's a lot of people in this world, and it's important to learn about them.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

Everybody should leave their country at some point and visit others because you realize we're all people who need a chance to know about each other. That would benefit everyone.

Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

I refuse to do shows that are narrowly constructed, that appeal to only one sentiment. I do a lot of Jewish material in front of non-Jews and a lot of non-Jewish material in front of Jews on the simple theory that the non-Jews are entitled to a glimpse of a Jewish world and the Jews are entitled to a glimpse of the world.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

All this misjudgment that we have of each other is based on ignorance. The second you get to travel, you see that human beings, no matter where they come from, they are the same.

As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.

Everyone can relate to me no matter what race or who you are or how you feeling.

Travel teaches tolerance.

We have to accept the world has become this place where we have to interact with people who are very different from us.

I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

The experience of travelling, getting familiar with other languages, other cultures definitely helps. It makes you a better person.

I feel like the world would be a better place if more people experienced a little bit of someone else's experience.

I love reading about other people's world view.

I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.

I think it doesn't matter, the color of your skin; it doesn't matter where you are from. It matters how you relate to people, how you connect with people, and the open-mindedness with which you approach the subject. That's to me what matters when you are making a film, not who you are or where you are from.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.