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Quote by Chinua Achebe
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, y

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you dont just turn it off one day. – Chinua Achebe

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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt. – Chinua Achebe

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Women
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Chinua Achebe
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But 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 Achebe

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Poetry
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Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, were going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it. – Cheryl Tiegs

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You are talking to a man who can only play a plastic keyboard. Give me anything weighted and Ive had it. I havent got the strength in my fingers to push them down. So I dont get a lot of expression on the keyboard. – Midge Ure

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